Discuss sociological factors that might have contributed to

Discuss sociological factors that (might) have contributed to the medicalization, demedicalization, OR remedicalization of obesity. What role does stigma have in this process (if any)?

Solution

1.Medicalization is the process where non-medical problems defined and treated as illnesses or disorders.
Demedicalization is the process by which a problem ceases to be defined as an illness or a disorder.

2.Obesity, which requires surgical treatment, is recognized as a disease.Considering obesity as a disease may therefore have consequences for the individuals affected, society.

3.Medicalization may reduce social discrimination by emphasizing that some of the causes of obesity are out of control .

4. Inasmuch as discrimination on the basis of disease or disability is considered unacceptable, medicalization may advance the rights of the obese .

5.Physicians, who often share the negative biases of society as a whole about obese patients usually consider the treatment of the causes of illness to be standard medical practice
label all of them “sick,” regardless of the rest of their health status.

6.It might be harmful to those who don’t see themselves as ill or who do not try to lose weight.

7.It may also reduce stigma among health care professionals by changing views on etiology.



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