All of the Following Are Examples of the Medicalization of Deviance

question 75

Multiple Choice

All of the following are examples of the medicalization of deviance except:

• A) cosmetic surgery to cure self-esteem.
• B) taking a drug to cure shyness.
• C) prescribing drugs to help someone get over the loss of a loved one.
• D) prescribing drugs to cure bipolar disorder.

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Definitions:

Heterozygous

A genetic condition where an individual has two different alleles of a gene, one inherited from each parent, leading to variation in genetic expression.

Probability

A measure of the likelihood that an event will occur, often expressed as a numerical value between 0 and 1.

Phenotypes

The observable characteristics or traits of an organism that result from the interaction of its genotype with the environment.

Recessive Traits

Traits that are expressed in an organism's phenotype only when two copies of the recessive allele are present.