Respossession Along The Rio Grande Analysis

Sociology is the study of social behavior or society, including its origins, development, organization, networks, and institutions. Since hospitals and medical institutions are significant institutions in our society, sociologists tend to focus on them extensively. In Conceiving Risk, Bearing Responsibility: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Diagnosis of Moral Disorder by Elizabeth Armstrong and The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession Along the Rio Grande by Angela Garcia, theories about the social construction of illness and the impact of medicalization on a community have been exemplified. The purpose of Freidson’s article was to analyze the social organization of the medical profession and its members. In his study, he explored how the medical profession has gained a monopoly in its field, which grants it complete jurisdiction over determining what illness is therefore how people must act in order to be treated as ill (Freidson 1970:205). Because medicine has the ability to label one person’s grievance an illness and another one not, Freidson believes that medicine creates the social role of illness. Illness is thought of as a deviance from a set of norms that represent normal or healthy behavior. “Human, and therefore social evaluation of what is normal, proper, or
Garcia is hired to work in the detoxification clinic. She has no formal training, but like the other attendants, neither do they. Despite her lack of training, she was still expected to distribute the proper dosage to all the patients in the clinic. During her return to New Mexico and her time in the clinic, Garcia became fascinated with the role of institutional structures and how they exacerbate an addict’s personal sense of