Concepts of Medicalisation and Biomedicalisation for Understanding Health and Illness

ASS045-2 Sociology of Health
and Illness

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
How useful are the concepts of medicalisation and biomedicalisation for understanding
shifting ideas about health and illness?..................................................................................3
Feminist critiques of medicine challenge the way in which women’s lives, principally in
relation to reproduction, have been subject to the control of the medical profession, with
women themselves seen as passive objects. Critically assess this view.................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Medicalization refers to the process in which treatment is provided by using medicine.
This is the one with the focus on providing better health and social care to humans. This is the
one which have the focus on providing better health and social care to humans. biomedicalisation
is also use of medicalization with using different technological for improving health and social
care. There are different views of medication on women which lead to create directly impact
their reproduction and have major impact over their life. In this report, there is discussion about
medicalization, biomedicalization along with feminist critic over medical challenges which is
able to impact their life (Braillon, (2018)).
How useful are the concepts of medicalisation and biomedicalisation for understanding shifting
ideas about health and illness?
Medicalization refers to the process by which human conditions along with problems
get treated as medical condition and leads to be the subject of diagnosis, medical study
treatment and prevention. This is a term which is provided by the society by health professional
give the effect of socioeconomic disadvantage which was related with medical issues. This is the
process through which human problem can be defined and treated as medical conditions and
due to doctors and health professional, it is easy to treat, prevent and diagnose. Medicalization
is claimed for to bring benefit along with cost which plays role and power of professional and
provide better concept of health and illness. Concept of medicalization is strongly associated
with medical dominance which involves jurisdiction over normal live event. Medicalization
shows the shifting Idea related with health and illness health and illness includes influenza , cold
and also deviant behaviour. Deviant behaviour is the one which is described as criminal or
inmoral for medical meaning (Page, (2017)). Sociologist has believed about the medicalization
has a new phenomenon which is able to provide medical authorities Anti-social behaviour for
social control increasingly. Sophisticated technology leads to provide the potential to reach of
medicalization in the form of social control which is termed as psycho Technology. The concept
of medicalization is able to develop that some respect in 1970’s during feminist movement.
Definition of medicalisation is very complicated many contemporary critics position.
Pharmaceutical companies which were supposed to get list of medicalization practice. The