ISS 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 55: Theoretical Definition, Medicalization, Role Theory
18 Jul 2019
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The process by which all human illness, disability, discomfort, or related problems, are assumed to have a medical or clinical cause and/or solution. The healthcare system and healthcare providers have considerable prestige and are viewed as central to solving these issues. Medicalization favors the medical model over the social model of understanding illness or disability. The term most often has a negative connotation. Medical model of disability vs. social model of disability. Provide a conceptual definition that differentiates between the medical and social models of understanding illness and disability. Provide examples of approaches, attitudes, or behaviors reflective of both models. There are two models for understanding illness and disability - the medical model and the social model. Each has different approaches, attitudes, and behaviors towards illness and disability. The medical model sees the illness or impairment as the problem. The illness or disability is the target of cure and the individuals are the passive receivers of services.
