Health Sciences 2700A/B Lecture 10: Health Science 2700 Lecture 10 Notes- Medicalization

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2700A/B
• Professor: Treena Orchard

Document Summary

The emergency of the medicalization of adolescents in canada: duri(cid:374)g (cid:862)ca(cid:374)ada(cid:859)s (cid:272)e(cid:374)tur(cid:455)(cid:863)(cid:894)20th (cid:272)e(cid:374)tur(cid:455)(cid:895) adoles(cid:272)e(cid:374)ts prese(cid:374)ted as a (cid:862)so(cid:272)ial pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)(cid:863, medicine a powerful domain through which this problem was identified and controlled. Increased socio-economic change: wwi and wwii, urbanization, mixed-sex socialization, popular and youth culture, together, these factors seen to challenge the status-quo. Led to the establishment of theories of modern adolescence, establishment of regulator(cid:455) poli(cid:272)ies i(cid:374)te(cid:374)ded to e(cid:374)for(cid:272)e (cid:449)hat (cid:449)as (cid:862)(cid:374)or(cid:373)al(cid:863) i(cid:374) ea(cid:272)h life stage (i. e. , iq tests, age-graded schools, public health agendas) Key tenets that remain with us today: the disease-model framed adolescence a state of disequilibrium triggered by the biological imperatives of sexual maturation. The (cid:862)use of adoles(cid:272)e(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863: what is seen to typify adolescence at particular historical moments reveals much about the pressing concerns of society. Involuntary hospitalized adolescents: biering article: focus: power relations between involuntarily hospitalized adolescents and their caregivers in the nursing field, special emphasis on the concept of medicalization.