Medicine as an Institution of Social Control

Zola, Irving Kenneth

doi:10.1111/j.1467-954x.1972.tb00220.x

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“…While the recognition of domestic violence as a health care issue is to be broadly welcomed, it is worth remaining cognisant of social science critiques which point to the increasing medicalization of life (Zola, 1972). Medicalization refers to the process whereby an issue such as domestic abuse, which was previously outside medical knowledge enters into medical discourse.…”

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Domestic abuse and women's health: the challenge for primary care

Peckover

2002

Primary Health Care Research and Development

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ResearchDomestic abuse and women's health: the challenge for primary careSue Peckover, Department of Community, Ageing, Rehabilitation, Education and Research, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Shef eld, Shef eld, UKThe recent interest in the issue of domestic abuse has highlighted its adverse impact upon womens' health, together with the need to improve health care responses. Whilst this has implications across health services, the raised awareness of domestic abuse as a health care issue is particularly important for primary care. This is not only due to the nature of primary care contact with women experiencing domestic abuse, but also because the current modernization of primary care, which includes organizational change, enhanced public health, increased partnership working and new forms of service delivery, provides an ideal opportunity to improve the services which are delivered to women experiencing domestic abuse. There are, however, a number of challenges to achieving real changes in practice. These include the complexities of domestic abuse which will always be competing with other clinical priorities, as well as the complexities of primary care which crosses a number of organizational and professional boundaries. Moreover, whilst the recognition that domestic abuse is a health care issue is to be welcomed, concerns relating to the medicalization and professionalization of what is essentially a social problem are highlighted.

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Section: Increasing Medicalization and Professionalization?mentioning

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Domestic abuse and women's health: the challenge for primary care

Peckover

2002

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“…Articles also used metaphoric themes to situate behaviour in a negative frame. Thus, while medicine (or medicalization) was not depicted as a “new repository of truth” (Zola, 1972, p. 487) ADHD, we might argue, implicitly was.…”

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“…Likewise, the extensive critical literature is omitted. For example, while medicalization was famously critiqued by Zola (1972), and four years later Conrad (2006) published the book Identifying hyperactive children: The medicalization of deviant behaviour , this literature is omitted from Australian newsprint media representations of ADHD.…”

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Heroic struggles, criminals and scientific breakthroughs: ADHD and the medicalization of child behaviour in Australian newsprint media 1999–2009

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International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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There is a dearth of scholarly analysis and critique of the Australian newsprint media’s role in the medicalization of child behaviour. To begin to redress this lack this paper analyses newsprint media’s use of metaphors that re/describe and construct realities of ADHD with a medicalizing effect. The interdisciplinary team used the Factiva TM database to locate and review 453 articles published in Australian national and metropolitan newspapers during the decade 1999–2009. Data analysis involved generating statistical descriptions of the dataset according to attributes such as: date, state, newspaper titles and author names. This was followed by inductive analysis of article content. Content analysis revealed pervasive and striking use of metaphor in newsprint media reporting of ADHD content, especially when describing health professionals, educators, parents and children. This collection of metaphors was striking, and while the metaphors deployed were varied, this diversity seemed underscored by a common functionality that increased the risk that child behaviour was explained using medicalized knowledge. We contend that these metaphors collectively and coherently functioned to simplify and delimit meanings of children’s health and behaviour to favour depictions that medicalize problems of children and childhood.

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“…Cabe destacar que o conceito de medicalização foi originalmente desenvolvido por Zola (1978;1972) (1972, p.492-493).…”

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A patologização do sedentarismo

2012

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A identificação do sedentarismo como fator de risco para doenças crônico-degenerativas influenciou significativamente nas recomendações de saúde pública em defesa de estilos de vida fisicamente ativos. O artigo estuda o processo de patologização do sedentarismo e seus desdobramentos para o campo da saúde pública. Num primeiro momento, discutimos de que maneira o modelo biomédico serve de base para a transposição de aspectos da conduta humana como "fator de risco" e, a seguir, como patologia, tal qual no caso específico da "Sín-drome da Morte Sedentária", assim classificada por alguns autores. Em seguida, analisamos como essa visão vem sendo difundida no campo da saúde, tomando por base um programa institucional que, ao mesmo tempo em que transforma o sedentarismo em doença, apresenta a atividade física como um remédio cujos resultados podem se estender a todas as esferas da vida. Nessa linha de raciocínio, em que os mal-estares de nossa civilização são medicalizados e tornados mercadoria ao serem transformados em riscos e patologias, a atividade física torna-se vacina para o corpo social. Palavras-chave: Estilo de vida sedentário; Risco; Atividade motora; Exercício; Política de saúde.

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Medicine as an Institution of Social Control

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Domestic abuse and women's health: the challenge for primary care

Domestic abuse and women's health: the challenge for primary care

Heroic struggles, criminals and scientific breakthroughs: ADHD and the medicalization of child behaviour in Australian newsprint media 1999–2009

A patologização do sedentarismo

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