HLTC02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Biomedicine, Discourse Analysis, Fetal Viability
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Social constructionism: a specific concept is structurally constructed. It"s a theoretical approach to the social critical analysis of biomedicine. Examples are the social analysis of gendered categories, illness categories and medical knowledge. The two major theoretical contributions are understanding the construction of medical knowledge as a social construct, dialetic relationship between medical knowledge and social relations. Discourse analysis used as a methodological approach of how biomedicine shapes the relations in society. Framing and constructing: charles golden suggest that conflict is inherent in the social world, and framing implies more attention and demographic shifts. Social constructionism has gone beyond medical approaches and focused on medical knowledge constructed by movement of social movements. Margeret lock uses the social constructionist approach to look at the social construction of medicine gender and relation of these dynamic procces. Ie japanese vs na menopause and how went from male to female importance not climertic model.
