2020
DOI: 10.17157/mat.2.3.199
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Medicalization as a way of life

Abstract: Most debates on postwar mental health focus on clinical evaluations of veterans' and civilians' individual experiences of wartime 'trauma'. But the psychological afterlife and the social discord that wars create cannot be reduced to a clinical artifact of individual trauma or be divorced from the historical and cultural meanings that it carries. Generations of war children will continue to remember, process, and work through cultural changes that quietly inscribe past war experiences in their daily lives. This… Show more

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“…The clinic offers a view into how domestic violence is experienced on the body and how it is expressed to those who might intervene. Women's complaints simultaneously rely on and resist the medicalization of familial strife into an illness category (Behrouzan, 2015; Conrad and Waggoner, 2014).…”
Section: The Belly Speaksmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The clinic offers a view into how domestic violence is experienced on the body and how it is expressed to those who might intervene. Women's complaints simultaneously rely on and resist the medicalization of familial strife into an illness category (Behrouzan, 2015; Conrad and Waggoner, 2014).…”
Section: The Belly Speaksmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…questioning the central place of medicalisation theory in anthropological analyses of the globalisation of the psy-ences. Recent work in this vein has highlighted the singular trajectories of medicalisation in different contexts (Han 2012), the potential for medicalisation to resocialise rather than desocialise suffering (Behrouzan 2015), and the limited persuasive power of attempts to medicalise 'outside the narrow circles of biological psychiatry' (e.g., Kitanaka 2008, 153). A recent special issue on the 'global psyche' calls for a move beyond 'the hermeneutics of suspicion underlying much medicalization scholarship to ask what other modes of critique might be possible and useful' (Béhague and MacLeish 2020, 8).…”
Section: Concluding Thoughts For the Critical Anthropology Of Global Mental Healthmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We therefore encourage scholars to think about health-seeking behavior in conditions when suspicion of biomedical knowledge is common (Langford 2013). This however does not result in a complete discarding of biomedical knowledge, as it is absorbed in family relations and used variously to make one's symptoms intelligible (Behrouzan 2015;Offersen et al 2016;Hay 2008). Yet this can not account for whether or not one accesses professional care.…”
Section: Challenges For Caregivingmentioning
confidence: 99%