SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Panacea, Fluoxetine, Sildenafil

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Perez Victor

Document Summary

Medicalization define it (conrad) : non-medical problems become defined and treated as illness, disorder/disease, and syndrome also noting that non-medical phenomena, not even previously considered medical or necessarily problematic can, when medicalized, become transformed into medical problems. Medicalization is now more driven by commercial and market interests than by professional claims-makers. The definitional center of medicalization remains constant, but the availability of new pharmaceutical and potential genetic treatments are increasingly drivers for new medical categories . Adhd statistics - 11% of children 4-17 have ever been diagnosed with adhd. Boys are between two and three times as likely than girls to have ever been diagnosed with adhd. Rates of adhd diagnosis increased an average of of 5% per year from 2003-2011. Prevalence of medicated adhd increased by 28% from. 69% of those children with a current diagnosis were receiving medication treatment for the disorder.