Basic Concepts Flashcards
basic shift in deviance
sin –> crime –> illness
expansion of medical jurisdiction occurred on
viability rather than validity of designation –> system in place rather than actual validity behind diagnosis
agents of social control
-police
-priest
-physicians
-judges
highest type of social control
ability to define things in terms of value and place in society
social factors that contribute to medicalization
-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
medicalization is
bidirectional –> demedicalization also occurs but at a MUCH smaller rate
health policy shift
from access TO cost control and managed care
medicalization dominated by
doctors, patients, pharamceuticals and insurance companies
DSM/IV recognized
social adjustment disorder and generalized anxiety disorder –> started era of marketing diseases and selling drugs to treat them
why was paxil ads halted
over untrue claim that drug is not habit forming –> shift in marketing diseases not just drugs
whos life experiences are more medicalized
womens –> PMS, childbirth, anoreia, menopause
sociocultural construction of the body
increased –> considers demands for products dealing with aging process and the body being treated as an artifact
testosterone therapy
-hope for men
-increase media interest
-increase potential profits
NOT confident in safety and effectiveness
recently emerged
main justification for treating baldness as a disease
psychological strains
before viagra
penile surgery, implants and injections
-viagra destigmatized
key to success of viagra
-DTC advertising
-focus on sexual enhancement
-focus on erectile dysfunction
peoples promotion of ADHD
promote self diagnoses, contradicted labeling theory, burred lines between social control agents nad deviants
changing forces in medicalization
biotechnology, consumers , and managed care –> started dominants bc of market driven costs
gatekeepers of medicalization
physicians
new major force in medicalization
big pharma –> invest in and profit from it
socialized medicine
frees limits on all types of care
managed care affected medicalization by
what they dont cover –> push profits over patient care
lifestyle orientation arguements
-LGBT
-anorexia
-obesity
benefits of medicalization
- harm reduction –> not deviant but your are ill
-blame reduction –> not your fault, your just sick
-increase life opportunities
concerns with medicalization
- transformation of human differences into illnesses
-decreased tolerance for diversities of human life
pharmaceutical companies have
ability to dictate desirable and undesirable norms and then directly profit off it
implications of medical control
-more forms of behavior are deemed responsibility of the individual
-too much focus on the individual rather than social context of problem
medical excuse
-more forms of behavior are deemed responsibility of the individual
individualization of social problems
-too much focus on the individual rather than social context of problem
risk society
obsession with insurance and security –> makes conditions become medicalized without symptoms
medicalization on aging
NOT inevitable and untreatable
