Abstract
Since 2000, which marked the national Human Genome Project (HGP), society has seen a shift in the process of medicalization–and we are here to talk about it! What is “normal” versus “abnormal” child behavior? How has society continued to explain human behavior in biological, genetic or medical terms? How does the pharmaceutical industry influence this process? Join us for the conversation on this week’s episode!
Keywords
medicalization, deviance, genetics
Sources
- Terminology brief and short article on the medicalization of deviance
- The Medicalization of Deviance: From Badness to Sickness. Prominent sociologist, Joseph Schneider. (Handbook of Sociology of Deviance 2015)
- The Problem with Race-Based Medicine--TED Talk with legal and medical scholar Dorothy Roberts
- The Medicalization of Society (Full Book pdf) by Peter Conrad
- ADHD Fictitious Epidemic (2 minute video)
- ADHD as a difference in cognition, not disorder–TED Talk Student Competition Winner
- Lecture on medicalization from Peter Conrad
- National Human Genome Research Institute
what kind of normal behavior?
Thanks
Thank you for the question! We are particularly talking about children’s behavior in this episode, but medicalization is about turning any potentially ‘normal’ behavior into medical conditions.