Author Question: Medicalization refers to a. the process of developing new drugs to treat a given illness. b. ... (Read 46 times)

abarnes · **on:** Aug 23, 2018

Medicalization refers to

a. the process of developing new drugs to treat a given illness.
b. treatment offered by medical doctors.
c. the process of defining a condition or behavior as an illness.
d. the growing number of doctors in the United States.
e. the idea that the body is more than a mere machine or factory.

Question 2

According to sociologists, doctors are

a. social institutions.
b. social deviants.
c. social control agents.
d. cultural commodities.
e. demedicalizing.