Medicalisation of sexuality Flashcards
What is medicalisation?
Medical surveillance and intervention of a condition, object or state that was previously not considered in biomedical terms.
Which aspects of life has been medicalised?
Childbirth and aging, menopause and death.
Why has childbirth been medicalised?
Due to rise in antenatal deaths. This decreased with the use of antibiotics and blood transfusions.
Name aspects in which aging been medicalised?
Pre-diabetes, pre-hypertension, overactive bladder and borderline high risk cholesterol and sarcopenia.
How does history link to the medicalisation of sexuality?
Due to historical belief of essentialism that there is an innate unchanging nature. In the industrial revolution, this was related to the natural physical and mental state being healthy and advances in science meant health improved.
What is sexuality?
Attraction/preference toward a group.
What is a sexual hiearchy?
Due to the deployment of sexuality and assumption of heteronormativity, those who aren’t are focred into the margins of society.
What is the medicalisation of women’s sexuality?
Hystericalisation.
What is the consequences of medicalisation?
Overuseu of unnecessary medical terminology but can create humane treatment like palliative care. Uniform expectations, domination of experts, contextualisation of social problems
What processes contribute to the medicalisation of sexuality?
Hysterisization of female bodies, pedagosization of children (sex education), social emphasis on procreation and pyschiatrisation of sex outside procreation as perverse.
What is the deployment of sexuality?
Anything deviating from the norm is due to a biological pathology which can be cured and treated due to essentialist views.
