In last weeks discussion, you were asked to define medicalization, analyze its impact on a real life situation, and explain how it can be both a good thing and a bad thing. You learned that homosexuality used to be medicalized, and was even in the DSMThe Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Illness, also known as the psychiatric bibleas a mental illness.
This is not merely a matter of semantics. Perspective shapes behavior, sometimes with dramatic consequences. Many people have died because their bodies and behaviors were medicalized, and their race, ethnicity, and even behaviors were treated as an incurable illness. To frame an aspects of ones being as a medical problem implies that there is a medical solution. If your race, for example, is defined as an incurable and contagious disease, the solution may be framed as death. This was the reality in The Holocaust of World War II. Medicalization was the ultimate tool of social control.
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This weeks discussion has 6 parts:
1. Lets start with some short definitions (like maybe 20 words each): (3/4 point, including the below sub-questions)
- What is the medical model of disability?
- What is the social model of disability?
- What is the relationship between disability and impairment?
2. What is the relationship between medicalization and disability? (1/4 point)
- Think carefully before answering this. Your answer should be concise and precise.
3. How was medicalization used as the rationale for the extermination of ethnically and culturally marginal (Proctor 184) people in The Holocaust? (~300 words) (1 point, including the below sub-questions)
- Who was included in the group of people who were ethnically and culturally marginal? Name as many categories as you can.
- What was the role of those in the medical profession?
4. Do you believe medicalization is a tool for social control? (1/4 point)
- Why or why not?
- At least 100 words, but really as many words as you want.
5. What is an interesting question, either on this topic, or linking this topic with another in our class, to guide discussion in this week’s forum? (1/4 point)
Your initial post should be about 450 words long.
6. After finishing with your own post, also post a comment on at least two of the posts of your classmates. You are welcome to post even more than 2 comments! Thoughtful, positive, questioning, and educational comments, which help to develop the group conversation, can both help others engage the subject more deeply AND improve your own grade! (1/4 point for each comment=total 1/2 point)
Make sure you’ve properly cited, including page numbers, paragraph numbers, and/or time stamps for all in-text citations.
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