SOCI 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Extended Cycle Combined Hormonal Contraceptive, Fluoxetine, Sildenafil
5 May 2018
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Lecture 13 – February 6th
Lifestyle Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Industry’s Influence
• Examples in treating women’s problems
o Prozac et al. depression
o Sarafem PMFF
▪ PMS
o HRT menopause
▪ Hormone replacement therapy
o Testosterone patch menopausal symptoms
o Seasonale regular periods
o (Viagra impotence/sexual performance)
• Birth control pills – meant for contraception but sometimes used for acne, period
cramps
Medicalization of PMS
• Results of gynecologists’ efforts to expand their scope and legitimate their existence
in a context where fewer babies were being born?
• Or more recently as an example of pharmaceutical company-driven medicalization?
• At the same time, it has also been seen as medicine finally addressing something
that women have been dealing with in relative silence for years
• Process of medicalization and demedicalization
Sarafem and PMDD
• Fluoxetine
• Approved in 2000
• Prozac patent expired in 2001
• Eli-Lilly produced
• PMDD to PMS
o Expansion of disease categories
o Diagnostic bracket creep
o A different form of medicalization
Medicalization of Appearance
• Obesity?
• Cosmetic surgery
• Baldness
• Botox, etc.
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