SOCIOL 2C06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Chiropractic, Menopause, Ibm Officevision
10 Apr 2016
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19thc power & inluence of med & scieniic professions. Med and scieniic construcions of social reality privileged. Allowed med actors & insituions to emerge as powerful agents of social control. Consequence of rise to power of med prof: Re-def of # of naturally occurring condiions in medical terms: naturally occurring biological processes become framed as pathology & disease menstruaion, menopause, ageing. Resulted in series of medical intervenions and ixes. Behaviours deemed problemaic also medicalized: over-imbibing (alcohol, food) once regarded as sign of: Treated in medical centres & hospital seings. Medical intervenions controlled by med prof. Med insituions hospitals, big pharma, medical assoc. All grown in power, importance, presige and wealth. Medicalizaion & deviance: def of medicalizaion: Social problems deined and treated as medical problems. Term oten used in context of a criique. As in over-medicalizaion" or medicalizaion of": studies on medicalizaion of deviance in sociology in 1970s. #"s of deviant behaviours are recast as disease.
