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Medicalization of Social Problems

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Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine

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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/978-94-017-8706-2_74-1

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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...

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Published in: Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine
Published: 2015
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