HSS 2321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Ivan Illich, Medical Diagnosis, Juvenile Delinquency

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 2321
• Professor: Kirsti Bissada

Document Summary

With the help of industrialization and secularization, medical science has become increasingly influential over the past century. The social control exercised by religious institutions has decreased. Zola (1972): medicalization as the process whereby more and more of life comes to be of concern to the medical profession. Ivan illich offers an influential critique of medicalization in limits to medicine (1976). Contemporary medical practice is iatrogenic, that is, it creates disease and illness even as it provides medical assistance. I(cid:448)a(cid:374) illi(cid:272)h(cid:859)s c(cid:396)iti(cid:395)ue of medi(cid:272)alizatio(cid:374): three kinds of iatrogenesis: (1) clinical iatrogenesis. Loss of individual autonomy and creation of dependency. Adhd is now the most prevalent type of childhood disability, with ritalin use growing 800 per cent since 1994. Three social factors that aided the discovery of hyperkinesis: (1) the pharmaceutical revolution. (2) trends in medical practice. (3) government action. Th(cid:396)ee othe(cid:396) (cid:374)e(cid:449)ly dis(cid:272)o(cid:448)e(cid:396)ed (cid:862)diseases(cid:863): (1) premenstrual syndrome (pms) (2) menopause (3) erectile dysfunction.