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Recognizing medicalization and demedicalization: discourses, practices, and identities.

Drew Halfmann1

  • 1University of California, Davis, USA. dhalfmann@ucdavis.edu

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This study introduces a new framework for understanding medicalization, analyzing its multiple dimensions and levels. It highlights how this nuanced approach clarifies complex medicalization and demedicalization processes, using abortion history as a case study.

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Area of Science:

  • Sociology of Health and Illness
  • Medical Sociology
  • Social Problems

Background:

  • Existing scholarship on medicalization often overlooks its multifaceted nature, including discourses, practices, and identities.
  • Analysis of medicalization typically occurs at limited levels (macro, meso, micro), leading to incomplete understanding.
  • The conceptualization of medicalization as a binary state rather than a continuous process hinders the study of demedicalization.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel typology for analyzing the multiple dimensions and levels of medicalization.
  • To demonstrate the utility of this typology in understanding complex social problems.
  • To re-examine historical episodes of medicalization and demedicalization, specifically in American abortion history.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a new conceptual typology for medicalization.
  • Application of the typology to analyze two historical episodes in American abortion.
  • Comparative analysis of previous interpretations with the insights provided by the new typology.

Main Results:

  • The proposed typology reveals previously overlooked dimensions and levels of medicalization in the analyzed episodes.
  • The framework clarifies simultaneous processes of medicalization and demedicalization.
  • The typology offers a more robust method for resolving scholarly disagreements regarding medicalization and demedicalization.

Conclusions:

  • A multidimensional and multi-level approach is crucial for a comprehensive understanding of medicalization.
  • The developed typology enhances the analysis of social problems and their medicalization trajectories.
  • This framework provides a valuable tool for studying both medicalization and demedicalization more effectively.