The readings for this week consisted of the second half of the book “White Coat‚ Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine” by Carl Elliott. These chapters discuss medicalization and bioethics. With the technological advancement that we have seen in a mere decade‚ these topics become increasingly relevant to our society. One of the recurring themes within Elliott’s writing is the idea that doctors and medicine know best. This idea that those with expert knowledge should decide what happens
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through its relations with others or focused inwards upon itself. Medicalization is the process by which human conditions and problems come to be defined and treated as medical conditions which happen naturally‚ after which become the subject of medical study‚ diagnosis‚ prevention‚ or treatment. Medicalization can be determined by new evidence or hypotheses about conditions by the development of new medications or treatments. Medicalization is studied from a sociologic perspective for its implications
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Gender is a concept that seems to be surface level‚ as it is cultural meanings that are linked to sex‚ and as we have learned cultural meanings have two very different aspects. The first is that culture changes‚ so ideals change‚ which is why certain characteristics in our culture fall in and out of popularity‚ and why the culturally constructed ideal is just a passing meaning. But the other side of gender‚ the embodied side‚ is more concerning and has a impact on people‚ which can affect people
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1. What the author is trying to explain is that the underlying problem is social factors. Social factors include‚ race‚ gender‚ ethnicity and etc. They are things that one cannot control. The fundamental cause is a way for people to get the help they need in order to avoid getting sick or being in debt. As a whole the authors try to implicate the idea that fundamental causes are necessary because it’s what connects us to what we need but‚ because we have social factors that can either be a negative
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Historically‚ people have sought to understand the world around them and how they as people exist within that world. Through the desire for understanding of ourselves and our bodies we as people seek to label and quantify bodily functions‚ behaviors‚ and illness. People first tried to explain illness in terms of a Biblical context – good verses evil. Therefore‚ illness was seen as a punishment for some overt or covert evil within the person. Slowly theological explanations gave way to value judgments
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Interactionist theorists view sickness as a condition to which we attach socially devised meanings. For example‚ an increasing number of behaviors that earlier generations defined as immoral or sinful are coming to be seen as forms of sickness the medicalization of deviance. The ministry of health is in the business of promoting wellness and ensuring the availability of quality health care to the people of Trinidad and Tobago in an affordable‚ sustainable and equitable manner. Although some advances were made
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come into play because they are seen as experts and would know about the issue that is happening about the body. People would go to them to have their questions answered and see if they can get treatment to get better. People would go through medicalization to identify problems and see if there is a treatment for it. Today in America‚ it is very common that the childbirth would happen at the hospital. The idea of how childbirth should go had shifted to delivering the baby by going through the medical
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to tackle these questions by examining the process of the social construction‚ the medicalization‚ and the medical uncertainties surrounding fibromyalgia. I will first discuss the process of social construction‚ or the development of a condition as a disorder‚ also discussing who the key actors in the process are and how everyone involved in the process is affected. Second‚ I will analyze the process of medicalization‚ or how a set of symptoms comes to be known as a disorder‚ complete with treatment
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risk getting sicker. During one scene‚ Susanna and Lisa resist taking their medication‚ and eventually Lisa convinces Susanna to stop completely. With that being said‚ the stigma around the issue of medicalization as being honourable treatment is highly valued in our society. In fact‚ medicalization is thought to reduce stigma because it keeps mentally ill individuals from behaving abnormally in social settings. Therefore‚ it makes it difficult for the oppressed to live their lives because their
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1. The etiology of the biological (i.e. medical model) approach to the study of mental health and illness states that there is a malfunction in an individual’s biology. This malfunction could be based in the brain‚ neurochemistry‚ or genes of the individual‚ and is unique to them. Treatment based on the biological approach includes medicine‚ electroshock therapy‚ and surgery. According to this model‚ only those who are diagnosed or seek help are considered a target population for assistance. When
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