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Medicalization and Social Control

Name: Medicalization and Social Control
Creator: Peter Conrad
Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, 0305 other medical science, 16. Peace & justice

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1992 English Publisher:Annual ReviewsJournal:Annual Review of Sociology, volume 18, pages 209-232 (issn: 0360-0572, eissn: 1545-2115,

Authors: Peter Conrad;

doi: 10.1146/annurev.so.18.080192.001233 , 10.1146/annurev.soc.18.1.209

Medicalization and Social Control

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This essay examines the major conceptual issues concerning medicalization and social control, emphasizing studies published on the topic since 1980. Several issues are considered: the emergence, definition, contexts, process, degree, range, consequences, critiques, and future of medicalization and demedicalization. Also discussed are the relation of medicalization and social control, the effect of changes in the medical profession and organization on medicalization, and dilemmas and lacunae in medicalization research.

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