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This review examines pharmaceuticalization and its impact on public health, proposing a new framework to understand these evolving medicalization processes in the 21st century.

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Area of Science:

  • Sociology of Health and Medicine
  • Public Health Policy
  • Science and Technology Studies

Background:

  • Medicalization studies have evolved significantly, with increased focus on pharmaceuticals and industry influence.
  • Existing frameworks struggle to explain complex interactions between modern and postmodern elements in healthcare.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the relationship between medicalization, pharmaceuticalization, and the pharmaceuticalization of public health.
  • To critique the limitations of modernist thinking in current medicalization studies.
  • To propose a reconceptualized framework for studying 21st-century health processes.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review and conceptual analysis.
  • Examination of modernist and postmodernist perspectives.
  • Development of a new theoretical framework.

Main Results:

  • Modernist thinking inadequately explains contemporary medicalization dynamics.
  • Pharmaceuticalization and pharmaceuticalization of public health represent distinct but related phenomena.
  • A novel framework is needed to capture the complexity of these processes.

Conclusions:

  • Reconceptualizing medicalization requires moving beyond modernist limitations.
  • The proposed framework offers a more robust approach to studying pharmaceutical influence on health.
  • This work provides tools for empirical research on 21st-century health trends.