HPS 0612 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Medicalization

• School: Pitt
• Department: History and Philosophy of Science
• Course: HPS 0612
• Professor: kelseyward

Document Summary

Conrad talks about hyper kinesis which is a broad category of mental disease. The people who noice irst that something that is wrong are usually teachers. Medicine has social roots it is an explanaion for disturbing social things. Deining behavior as a medical problem and mandaing or allowing medical treatment. Government studies show efecive treatment only mds should diagnose. Associaion for children with learning disabiliies doing conferences, legislaion, and social support. Medical social control assume that deviance is a medical problem.