SOCIOL 3HH3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Blue Mass, Ben Goldacre, Peptic Ulcer
12 Sep 2013
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Biomed has increased, has been given authority. Social belief in the power of science and med has led soc to allow/demand more authority to med jurisdiction. Med doesn"t just happen, is constructed in the whole social framework. Why has soc given med such power: decline of social authority of law, decline of social authority of religion. To provide explanations for us: aesculapian authority. Power we give to med related to our psych dependency: med has the answer, is the only one who has the answer. Used to turn to religion, now turn to med. Exemplified by the placebo effect: exemplifies the social construction of health, placebo pharmacologically inert substance does nothing, homeopathy. Like healing like, rather than opp healing opp. Often something diluted a lot by water but yet people are cured. Placebos: often administered by a double-blind drug trial, effect much wider than an inert substance.
