Health Sciences 1002A/B Final: HEALTH SCIENCES MIDTERM – GENDER AND MEDICALIZATION

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 1002A/B
• Professor: Jessica Polzer

Document Summary

Health sciences midterm gender and medicalization: review. Medicalization the process by which non-medical problems become defined and treated as. Social control mechanisms that aim to induce conformity or at least to manage or minimize medical issues, usually in terms of illnesses, disorders, or syndromes. deviant behaviour. Social organization of health care. (i. e. medical dominance) Social construction of health and illness (i. e. medicalization) Deviance behaviour or activities that violate social expectations about what is normal. Focuses on social determinants of health, such as the social production, distribution and construction of health and illness, and the social organization of health care. It directs attention to the prevention of illness through community participation and social reforms that address living and working conditions. Societal production and distribution of health and illness. (i. e. sdh gender: medicalization. The process by which non-medical problems become defined and treated as medical issues, usually in terms of illnesses, disorders, or syndromes.