Abstract

FORCADES I VILA, Teresa. Medicalization of social problems. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2012, vol.38, suppl.5, pp.803-809. ISSN 0864-3466.

The present article analyzed the topic of medicalization of social problems as an inappropriate extension of the medical model that brings about three negative consequences: methodological nemesis, clinical nemesis and social nemesis. Several examples were drawn from the current medical literature, with a special emphasis on the medicalization of social violence and the ideological misuse of science in the past and, unfortunately, at present.

Keywords : medicalization; desocialization; iatrogeny; medical nemesis; social violence; Illich; Cartwright; post hoc propter hoc; methodological limits; ethiopic dysethesia; drapetomania.

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