SOCIOL 2C06 Lecture Notes - Sick Role, Abusive Power And Control, Methylphenidate
4 Apr 2014
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The medicalization of deviance from badness to sicknesss. Deviance is no longer medically embedded as badness or imoralness but it is not a symptomatic of deviance and now it becomes a sickness . Case study: identifying hyperactive children: the medicalization of deviant behaviour. Charles bradley discovered the paradoxical effect (opposite affect upper in adults, Downer in kids: class of drugs that depress cns and calm you down downers , class of drugs that rev up cns and are uppers methylphenidate. Had a fix (ritilin) then needed a problem, not the other way around like other medical problems. M. laufer desbribe a condition called hyperkinetic impulse disorder . A flood of papers in medical lit. Association for children w/learning disabilities claims making group advocating for children not being bad but being medically sick. Task force agrees on the term minimal brain dysfunction (mbd: most common child psychiatric problem. Still forms of social control in controlling behaviour medically (counselling, meds)
