SOC211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Angelina Jolie, Hair Loss, Oxycodone
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Explain why it is not an all or nothing phenomenon. What is medicalization: medi(cid:272)alizatio(cid:374) = (cid:862)the pro(cid:272)ess (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h (cid:374)o(cid:374)(cid:373)edi(cid:272)al pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)s (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e defi(cid:374)ed a(cid:374)d treated as (cid:373)edi(cid:272)al pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)s(cid:863, defined in medical terms, uses medical language, understood within a medical framework. Includes a wide range of categories alcoholism, pms, ptsd, ed, adhd, etc: not just about medical colonization growing public intolerance for being uncomfortable. Medicalization conrad 1992: often a matter of degree, the child birth process is the most medicalized process, medicalization can be elastic, some illnesses are not fully medicalized. It is bidirectional, meaning it can be a medical problem, and then be redacted: normally through special interest groups to push for things to be demedicalized. Critiques: not as rampant as projected, patients are not passive, and medicalization can be helpful to legitimize distress: when the medical label can reduce the stigma.
