SOCI201 Study Guide - Final Guide: Medicalization, Role Theory, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Perez Victor

Document Summary

Defined by conrad as when non-medical problems become defined and treated as illness, disorder/disease, and syndrome . Medicalization researchers are much more interested in the etiology of definitions than the etiology of the behavior or condition: the medicalization of adhd (no biological marker) Expand market by convincing the healthy that they are sick. Why was there a surge in available medications for it in the mid- 11% of children 14-17 have ever been diagnosed with adhd. Boys are between 2 and 3 times as likely than girls to have ever been diagnosed. Rates of adhd diagnosis increased an average of 5% per year from 2003-2011. 69% of children with an adhd diagnosis take medication for it. Prevalence of medicated adhd increased by 28% from 2007-2011. What do we think? (general social survey data) The expanding number of diagnoses in the dsm i to 5. Psychologists to urologists/ the organics of erectile dysfunction.