Health Sciences 2700A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ultimate Human, Medicalization, Hypervigilance

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

Document Summary

Lecture 8 adolescence part iii the medicalization of adolescence. The emergence of the medicalization of adolescence in canada: during canada"s century (20th century), adolescents presented as a social problem , medicine is a power 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 are seen to challenge the status-quo. 12-24 year olds were the healthiest of all age groups, but they were constructed as problematic (1920-1970: psychologists, psychiatrists, educators, and social workers formulated a body of shared ideas and approaches to the health of, professionalization the young . Led to the establishment of theories of modern adolescence, establishment of regulatory policies intended to enforce what was normal in each life stage: e. g. , iq tests, age-graded schools, public health agendas. The disease-model framed adolescence as a state of disequilibrium triggered by the biological imperatives of sexual maturation.