(Rerelease) SOC109 – Illness & Morality: A Look at Medical Sociology
The Social Breakdown
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The Power of Public Commitment to a Diet
There's some kind of social peer pressure or, you know, to saying like, like I am a pescatarian. Ellen: There shouldn't be anything wrong with trying to get healthy. But don't you think that there is some power in publicly committing to a certain diet? "If you commit to anything, you should make that public," she says. 'That exactly shows that medicine or health can also be an act of social control'
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