SOC 445 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading #10 pt 1/2 : Public Knowledge, Medicalization

• School: U of M
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 445
• Professor: Professor PJ McGann

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Conrad - the medicalization of society, pp 97 - 101, 112 - 113. 90% of men masturbated) healthy (by masters and. Johnson: changes that affected demedicalization, shifts and developments in psychiatry, the emergence of hiv/aids, discoveries in genetics, changes in conception and language in the gay community. Emerging medical conceptions of male homosexuality: a review: the term homosexuality was coined in 1869 by hungarian physician k. m. Demedicalization and four arenas of change: since 1974, more changes occurred related to the medical definitions and treatments of homosexual conduct, psychiatry, treatment of hiv/aids, genetics, changing perceptions in the gay community. Transformations in psychiatry: biomedical psychiatry became dominant, overtaking psychoanalytic approaches, the gay rights movement and subsequent lgbt organizations. } the behavior didn"t change, the definition did; it became demedicalized. } the original medicalization of homosexuality was meant as a form of protection against oppressive legal sanctions, although oppressive medical practices still emerged in psychiatric attempts to change homosexuals into heterosexuals.