SOC243H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Iatrogenesis, Sick Role, Mental Disorder
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Sociology of health: lecture 4: de nitions: disease, illness, sickness, disorder & health. When thinking about medicalization, this is an issue because sometimes it involves treating sicknesses as if they were diseases or illnesses --> comes with consequences. In the rst stages of hiv, there were attempts to portray aids as a punishment from. God (retribution) for sexual practice; it was moralized rather than medicalized, which was wrong and restricted research for nding a treatment for hiv. They increased the illness experience and restricted access to resources that would actually help them cope with hiv. Textbook doesn"t use the preferred dictionary de nition that is in this slide. People usually get depressed when they have diseases, but depression mainly comes from things like severe losses. We have to look at depression and mental illnesses as conditions not linked to disease.
