Health Sciences 2700A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Psychopathology, Ultimate Human

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2700A/B
• Professor: Treena Orchard

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Health science 2700 health issues in childhood and adolescence iii. The emergence of the medicalization of adolescence in canada. Duri(cid:374)g ca(cid:374)ada(cid:859)s (cid:272)e(cid:374)tur(cid:455) (cid:894)(cid:1006)(cid:1004)th century), adolescents presented a social problem. Medicine was a powerful domain through which this problem was identified and controlled. Increased socio-economic change: wwi and wwii, urbanization, mixed-sex socialization, popular and youth culture, together, these factors challenged the status-quo. 12-24 year olds were the healthiest of all age groups but they were constructed as problematic. This concern was shared across scientific disciplines: co(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:272)ted to fears a(cid:271)out the desta(cid:271)ilizatio(cid:374) of (cid:858)(cid:449)ester(cid:374)(cid:859) so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) as a result of i(cid:374)dustrializatio(cid:374), urbanization and mass immigration. Adolescents were framed as vulnerable and as a key resource to combat and control. De(cid:448)isi(cid:374)g (cid:449)a(cid:455)s to produ(cid:272)e (cid:862)(cid:374)or(cid:373)al(cid:863) adoles(cid:272)e(cid:374)ts (cid:272)e(cid:374)tral to the perpetuatio(cid:374) of a health(cid:455) a(cid:374)d stro(cid:374)g society. The disease-model framed adolescence a state of disequilibrium triggered by the biological imperatives of sexual maturation.