SOSA 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Medical Sociology, Late-Onset Hypogonadism

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 1003
• Professor: Falconer C.

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Sosa 1003 lecture 20 medicalization and biomedicalization (medicine, science, and you: medication: in each of these three cases, medicine is used to address an issue. Medicalization is when problems, experiences, or behaviour become the domain of medicine: one of the major theories in medical sociology. Medicalization: most medicalization research focuses on two issues, how deviance becomes a medical issues, how badness become sickness , how medical categories expand, labeling an increasing variety of experiences as medical issues. Medicalization and deviance: by badness , sociologist means deviance , deviance is a non-normative term in sociology, which means it is not assigning a value judgement. Some haldol side effects: this is a sedative: difficulty speaking, mask-like face, restlessness, uncontrolled . Social construction approach: people get very salty about the term social construction and it is frequently misused, what it means: something is, at least in part, a product of human definition, ex.