Chapter sixteen: The body, medicine, health, & health care Flashcards
Health professionals objectify patients, identifying them with certain diseases or issues and do not consider the personal or social problems that the patient is dealing with
Medical gaze
Heightened awareness of one’s body and oneself within society, etc.
Reflexivity
What is deemed attractive by society, media, peers
Appearance culture
Roots in patriarchal, Eurocentric concepts of what is attractive and beautiful
Objectifying gaze
Work that is involved in becoming more fit, muscular, healthy, beautiful
Bodily capital
Starvation and dehydration for sports
Manorexia
Men who have grown up and been socialized into believing the physical male ideal
(ex. G.I. Joe action figure, bodybuilder images)
Bigorexia/Adonis complex
Rich can afford medical treatment vs. millions who are underinsured or who have no health insurance
Cadillac health insurance policies
Drugs derived from opium, or synthetic
ex. oxycodone, semisynthetic, fentanyl
Opioids
Distrust in African American community of the medical system
ex. Tuskegee experiments
Medical racism
People from developed countries in the Global North travel to developing countries in the Global South for medical procedures
Medical tourism
Not have adequate access to safe and nutritious food
Food insecurity
Form of malnutrition involving the inadequate consumption of vital nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, calories
Undernutrition
An area that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food
Food deserts
Sociologist with interest in sociology & the body
Michel Foucault
