SOCIOL 2C06 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Victim Blaming, System On A Chip, Psychopathy
4 Apr 2014
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2c06 chapter 9 medicine as an institution of social control. Medicine was first conceptualized as an agent of social control by talcott parsons. Medical social control the ways in which medicine functions to secure adherence to social norms specifically, by using medical means to minimize, eliminate, or normalize deviant behaviour. Ex: smoking causes cancer is a form of how medicalization points to what is desirable behaviour versus what is not. Medical social control is enacted through professional medical intervention which aims at returning sick individuals to compliance with health norms and to their conventional social roles, adjusting them to new roles. Traditionally, psychiatry and public health have serves as the clearest examples of medical social control. Psychotechnologies, which include various forms of medical and behavioural technologies are the most common means of medical control of deviance (tranquelizers, Antabuse, methadone: easily administered, generally less expensive, effectful. Behaviour modification (skinners) has been used to treat various mental illnesses.
