SOCI 473 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Modafinil, Medicalization, Erving Goffman
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Medicalization as a social process: multiple players, affecting the certain conditions and experiences of medicalization. Medicalization as social control : non-medical problems (alcoholism, menopause, childbirth, hyperkinesia, bad breath, etc. ) > medical problem: conceptual: using medical terms to describe problem (i. e. intermittent explosive disorder) Institutional: using medical framework to understand problem (i. e. aa) Interactional: using medical intervention to "treat" a problem (i. e. childbirth) Labelling process: primary deviance - initial act of rule breaking, secondary deviance - acceptance of identity as "deviant, tertiary deviance - normalising "deviant" behaviour by relabelling it as non-deviant. Medicalization + psychiatric labelling: modern demand for "normalcy, goffman - notion of "normal human being, labelling = expansion of psychiatric/medical categories (and roles associated with) Increasing self-diagnosis: expectati0ns of labelling can have +/- effects, degrees of medicalization = everyone is involved/affected. Margree - normal + abnormal: an anomaly = not an abnormality, diversity does not signify sickness. Normativity, normality + pathology: don"t think about health when we"re healthy.
