RELIGST 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Etiology
10 Jan 2017
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What is being called a disease has changed: has to do with what we feel is significant, when explaining we evaluate it and judge it. Science is thought of as objective and unbiased: push back from philosophers that this doesn"t work, first, people research what is perceived to be important. So starting with subjectivity before anything is carried out. What we label disease has to do with what we value. There is nothing objective about the concept of disease. Science, particularly medical, is infused w value (cultural, social, religious, political) Health is a spectrum, relative to individual. When we attempt to explain what is in the world we are at the same time making judgments on what is significant or valuable or desirable (or undesirable) Tend to think science has nothing to do with values: labelling masturbation as disease was about morality. To give it legitimacy tend to look at it in terms of science.
