Basic Concepts

Question 1

basic shift in deviance

Answer 1

sin –> crime –> illness

Question 2

expansion of medical jurisdiction occurred on

Answer 2

viability rather than validity of designation –> system in place rather than actual validity behind diagnosis

Question 3

agents of social control

Answer 3

-police
-priest
-physicians
-judges

Question 4

highest type of social control

Answer 4

ability to define things in terms of value and place in society

Question 5

social factors that contribute to medicalization

Answer 5

-faith in science, rationality and progress
-increased prestige of medical profession –> belief in institution
-american love of industrial and technological solutions
-humanitarian trend - normal people advocating for others and putting them in hospitals to get treated

Question 6

medicalization is

Answer 6

bidirectional –> demedicalization also occurs but at a MUCH smaller rate

Question 7

health policy shift

Answer 7

from access TO cost control and managed care

Question 8

medicalization dominated by

Answer 8

doctors, patients, pharamceuticals and insurance companies

Question 9

DSM/IV recognized

Answer 9

social adjustment disorder and generalized anxiety disorder –> started era of marketing diseases and selling drugs to treat them

Question 10

why was paxil ads halted

Answer 10

over untrue claim that drug is not habit forming –> shift in marketing diseases not just drugs

Question 11

whos life experiences are more medicalized

Answer 11

womens –> PMS, childbirth, anoreia, menopause

Question 12

sociocultural construction of the body

Answer 12

increased –> considers demands for products dealing with aging process and the body being treated as an artifact

Question 13

testosterone therapy

Answer 13

-hope for men
-increase media interest
-increase potential profits
NOT confident in safety and effectiveness
recently emerged

Question 14

main justification for treating baldness as a disease

Answer 14

psychological strains

Question 15

before viagra

Answer 15

penile surgery, implants and injections
-viagra destigmatized

Question 16

key to success of viagra

Answer 16

-DTC advertising
-focus on sexual enhancement
-focus on erectile dysfunction

Question 17

peoples promotion of ADHD

Answer 17

promote self diagnoses, contradicted labeling theory, burred lines between social control agents nad deviants

Question 18

changing forces in medicalization

Answer 18

biotechnology, consumers , and managed care –> started dominants bc of market driven costs

Question 19

gatekeepers of medicalization

Answer 19

physicians

Question 20

new major force in medicalization

Answer 20

big pharma –> invest in and profit from it

Question 21

socialized medicine

Answer 21

frees limits on all types of care

Question 22

managed care affected medicalization by

Answer 22

what they dont cover –> push profits over patient care

Question 23

lifestyle orientation arguements

Answer 23

-LGBT
-anorexia
-obesity

Question 24

benefits of medicalization

Answer 24

• harm reduction –> not deviant but your are ill
  -blame reduction –> not your fault, your just sick
  -increase life opportunities

Question 25

concerns with medicalization

Answer 25

• transformation of human differences into illnesses
  -decreased tolerance for diversities of human life

Question 26

pharmaceutical companies have

Answer 26

ability to dictate desirable and undesirable norms and then directly profit off it

Question 27

implications of medical control

Answer 27

-more forms of behavior are deemed responsibility of the individual
-too much focus on the individual rather than social context of problem

Question 28

medical excuse

Answer 28

-more forms of behavior are deemed responsibility of the individual

Question 29

individualization of social problems

Answer 29

-too much focus on the individual rather than social context of problem

Question 30

risk society

Answer 30

obsession with insurance and security –> makes conditions become medicalized without symptoms

Question 31

medicalization on aging

Answer 31

NOT inevitable and untreatable