Examples Of Biological Diagnoses
Biological diagnoses are the product of technological, political, and cultural contexts that makes up sociocultural products. Furthermore, biological diagnoses creates new realities and ways of being for the patient who has been diagnosed with said disease/illness. An example of a biological diagnoses that demonstrates that it is a sociocultural product and that it shapes new realities would be celiac disease. Celiac disease is an immune reaction to eating gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye. In the United States, it is a common disease that affect more than 200,000 people per a year. This disease produces a diagnosis and treatment that is subjected to the society and cultural context where the person lives.
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Ian Hacking states that “Social changes creates new categories of people.” (Hacking 1999, 1). Social change has occurred within the last 50 years in America’s society when it comes to healthy living. Especially within the last decade, America has been making a push for organic food. Organic meat, organic vegetables, organic fruit, all organic ingredients. Restaurants pride themselves by stating that they are “All natural, 100% organic”. Because of the push for healthy eating, someone who has been diagnosed with celiac disease is segmented and organized into a person who is more-so interested in being healthy and eating healthy. When one states that they are “gluten-free” it’s looked more at as a lifestyle choice and not by medical reasoning which has caused an issue for people who can’t have gluten. For instance, when someone once told me that they are gluten-free, I asked them to specify whether it was a lifestyle choice or if they had celiac disease. This is an issue for someone who has celiac disease because when they tell someone they can’t eat gluten it takes away part of the power of their disease since most people will think they are gluten-free by choice. There’s a mis-classification due to this. Culture classifies gluten-free as wanting to be healthier; while the diagnosis classifies being gluten-free as a medical condition that acts as a
The society in which …show more content…
Ian Hacking states that “Social changes creates new categories of people.” (Hacking 1999, 1). Social change has occurred within the last 50 years in America’s society when it comes to healthy living. Especially within the last decade, America has been making a push for organic food. Organic meat, organic vegetables, organic fruit, all organic ingredients. Restaurants pride themselves by stating that they are “All natural, 100% organic”. Because of the push for healthy eating, someone who has been diagnosed with celiac disease is segmented and organized into a person who is more-so interested in being healthy and eating healthy. When one states that they are “gluten-free” it’s looked more at as a lifestyle choice and not by medical reasoning which has caused an issue for people who can’t have gluten. For instance, when someone once told me that they are gluten-free, I asked them to specify whether it was a lifestyle choice or if they had celiac disease. This is an issue for someone who has celiac disease because when they tell someone they can’t eat gluten it takes away part of the power of their disease since most people will think they are gluten-free by choice. There’s a mis-classification due to this. Culture classifies gluten-free as wanting to be healthier; while the diagnosis classifies being gluten-free as a medical condition that acts as a