SOC 445 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Disease Mongering, Pharmaceutical Industry, Paroxetine

• School: U of M
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 445
• Professor: Professor PJ McGann

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Underperformance (3) lifestyle drugs (a) closely related to the phenomenon of. Dtc: diagnostic expansion, enlargement of the boundaries of a diagnosis into. The rebranding helps us see how diagnosis is linked to gender (could also be classed, racialized, etc) The thing is somehow shaped by gender and also producing ideas of gender (empirical = real world examples; conceptual. = educated theories that apply to the real world) There are much more engines now (e. g. , past three decades, articles on erectile dysfunction went from 18 to more than. { people trained in medical issues (broadly defined) Led to the increased medicalization of things that were considered normal (e. g. , shyness, anxiety, etc) E. g. , impotence, adhd, etc (what"s considered healthy and a normal performance is not a fixed point, it"s always from someone"s point of view) As money for private psychotherapy decreased, there was a shift to drug treatment.