19. Disease as a Scientific or Normative Concept

🎙️ In this episode, I will first use Dr. Simon's article to outline the arguments of both sides of the debate: namely, whether diseases truly exist in the world or are merely constructs in the minds ...

📖 Sources:Deborah Lupton. Foucault and the medicalisation critique. In: Foucault, Health and Medicine.📅 First released on Telegram channel: October 17, 2023🔗 Channel link: RadioTor...

📖 Sources:Magnus Hirschfeld. The Transvestites: The Erotic Drive to Cross-Dress. In: The Transgender Studies Reader.Kaplan and Sadock’sMasoud Ansari's Lectures on Gender Theory: Part One / Part TwoLa...

📖 Sources:Classification and Process in Sociomedical Understanding: Towards a Multilevel View of Sociomedical Methodology. In: Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine The Perils of Interdis...

📖 Sources:Plato: Complete Works.🎧 Host: Amirsaman Solaymani📅 First released on Telegram channel: November 10, 2022🔗 Channel link: RadioTor...

🎧 Host: Amirsaman Solaymani📅 First released on Telegram channel: August 3, 2022🔗 Channel link: RadioTor...

📖 Sources:Peter Conrad. The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders. The Johns Hopkins University Press: 2007.🎧 Host: Amirsaman Solaymani📅 Firs...

📖 Sources:Eunjin Kim. How Much Sex Is Healthy? The Pleasure of Asexuality. In: Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality. New York University Press: 2010.🎧 Host: Amirsaman Solaymani📅 First...

📖 Sources:Joseph Masco. Atomic Health, or How The Bomb Altered American Notions of Death. In: Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality. New York University Press: 2010🎧 Host: Amirsaman Sol...