SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Plastic Surgery, Body Modification, Neoliberalism
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Situates health and disease at the level of the individual. Defining regular life things as a medical crisis. America found a new health crisis micro mastia . Healthism refers to the hyper responsiblization of the human body; we are manipulated into taking more responsibility of our bodies. Discursively produced; moral and acts of charity. That if you are beautiful on the inside, then you can be beautiful on the outside. It intersects with discourses of gender and sexuality. The medical model locates problems within the body and mind and offers medical solutions. Attitudinal changes and interventions in the social world as solutions. Reads disabilities as how embodied differences are read socially to be disabled. 12-20% of north americans have some sort of disability, only 1% of tv characters are depicted as having a disability. Disability as requiring sympathy (disabled people as victims) They do not have a complex life etc. This stereotype involves the disabled overcoming their disability.
