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Medicalization of Social Problems
Ashley Frawley 
Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine
Swansea University Author:
Ashley Frawley
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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/978-94-017-8706-2_74-1
Abstract
Medicalization, a key concept in sociology, refers to the process by which personal and social phenomena are increasingly understood in medical terms. Constructionist approaches to social problems have made considerable use of the medicalization thesis to examine the ways medical language is used to...
| Published in: | Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine |
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| Published: |
2015
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https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-94-017-8706-2_74-1 |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa26770 |
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Medicalization, a key concept in sociology, refers to the process by which personal and social phenomena are increasingly understood in medical terms. Constructionist approaches to social problems have made considerable use of the medicalization thesis to examine the ways medical language is used to describe a wide variety of social problems. This chapter describes the medicalization process, use of the concept in social problems constructionist research, and causes and contexts of the ascendance of medical language in social problem rhetoric. The broader social benefits and consequences of increasing medicalization of social problems are also discussed. |
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| Keywords: |
medicalization, social problems, rhetoric, constructionism |
| College: |
Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
| End Page: |
18 |