PHIL 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Etiology, Social Constructivism
20 Feb 2017
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Engelhardt"s thesis (cid:498)in short, the disease of masturbation indicates that evaluations play a role in the development of explanatory models and that this may not be an isolated phenomenon. (cid:499) (p. Reading: the disease of masturbation: values and the concept of disease by englehardt. Medicine judges what the human organism should be. (cid:498)what"s good for one"s soul(cid:499) vs. (cid:498)one"s health(cid:499) is bad thinking. We translate moral issue into medical terms to relieve the moral opprobrium. Framework of healthcare (cid:498)wasn"t value free rather structured by values and associated with it i. e. alcoholism expectation of the times(cid:499) Masturbation is an example of the (cid:498)value-laden nature of science(cid:499) Signs and symptoms fit a wide range of maladies but were classified thus one could be quick to go from observation to explanation (the people could"ve had something else) (cid:498)values influence the purpose and direction of investigations and treatment(cid:499) (cid:498)medicine is not real, but one we create(cid:499)
