Question

PLEASE ANSWER ASAP

1- In your own words, what is medicalization? How does this contribute to social control?

2- Please either watch Peter Conrad's guest video. LINK FOR THE VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l8LJjy5B2g

Answer the following questions:

A- What stood out to you and/or interested you? Discuss.

B- What were Conrad’s main point(s) about medicalization?

3- The reading and Conrad’s lecture/reading discussed multiple examples of medicalization. Please do mini-research on one example of medicalization (either one briefly discussed in the content or an example not discussed yet). You may choose something medicalized in either physical or mental health. After researching your topic, please teach your peers about your topic. Address the following points:

What your topic is?

How is this medicalized?

Has this changed over time? If so, how?

Are there groups/people who disagree with this being medicalized? If yes, please discuss their point of view?

What are the benefits to this being medicalized? What are the consequences/negatives of this being medicalized?

Answer 1

• 1.Medicalization describes a process by which nonmedical problems become defined and treated as medical problems,usually in terms if illness or disorders. In modern society, medicalization can be motivated by a number of factors, including new evidence or medical observations about mental or behavioral conditions, as well as the development of new medical technologies, treatments, and medications. Society, too, plays a role.
• Examples of medicalized disorders include menopause, alcoholism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anorexia, infertility, sleep disorders etc.
• Social control is a central and important concept in sociology.The social control aspect of medicine was conceptualized by Parsons,when he depicted illness as deviance and medicine and the "sick role" as the appropriate mechanism of social control.
• Medical social control is defined as the ways in which medicine functions (wittingly or unwittingly) to secure adherence to siicial norms; specifically by using medical means or authority to minimize, eliminate or normalize deviant behavior.
• It is to say that without medicalization in a definitional sense,medical social control looses its legitimacy and is more difficult to accomplish.The development of a technique of medical social control,like,pharmaceutical intervention,may procede the medicalization of a problems,but for implementation some type of medical definition is necessary.Medicalization precedes medical social control.
• Due to time limit,remainig questions can be asked as another question,they will be answered,thankyou for your cooperation