HLTHAGE 1AA3 Study Guide - Final Guide: David Pendleton Oakerhater, Sexual Dysfunction, Late-Onset Hypogonadism

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Medicalization established medicalization as a distinct area of study: based on the labelling theory and constructionist studies of social problems, conrad and. It has the potential to increase the range of individuals caught up in the medicalization net as it targets problematized conditions and genetical conditions. Adhd does not consider issues with the educational system, changing family structures, the effects of media, and other factors related to inattention among children: medicalization depoliticizes behaviors, ex. Case study: medicalizing introspection and shyness: shyness, timidity, and introversion are characteristics that have been assigned to disorders like social phobia, social anxiety, and avoidant personality. It frames applied behaviour analysis (aba) as being genocide at eliminating those who are not normal: the internet does not account for society"s increasing contestation of medical knowledge and. If medicalization was linked to modernity (the rise of science and the medical profession) then. Demedicalization is linked to society"s move from modernity to postmodernity.