SOC-1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Business Travel, Paul Starr, Global Health
23 Apr 2016
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Chapter 13: the body, medicine, health, and health care. No clear line between the mind and body; mental processes and body processes. Nonprisoners and prisoners alike are being tortured through increased degrees of surveillance. Shift to performing autopsies to learn about diseases, their courses, and effects on bodies and organs. Sexual body: push one"s body to the limit in sexual experiences; general focus on body, society, culture. Michel foucault: punishment should be physical because imprisonment is constant mental torment. Reflexiveness or being aware of your body and yourself in general adolescent girls; dissatisfaction. Increased desire for thinness due to media portrayals. Naomi wolf: media confront the vast majority of people with unattainable standard of beauty male gaze since males are the ones who dominate the media; patriarchal and eurocentric ideals of beauty and attractiveness. Enormous sums of money spent on cosmetics, fitness workouts, clothing, surgeries (breast, liposuction, tummy tuck, eye surgery, breast reduction)
