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The Languages of Medicalisation.
1Section of Legal Medicine Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy.
La Clinica Terapeutica
|April 3, 2025
Summary
Technology profoundly impacts individual identity and daily life by reshaping reality and prospects. Understanding this social dialectic is crucial for interpreting technology's role in human existence and social structures.
Area of Science:
- Sociology of Technology
- Philosophy of Technology
- Medical Sociology
Background:
- Modern identity is complex, plastic, and shaped by societal tensions.
- Technology and social interactions create a unique existential viewpoint.
- Everyday life is significantly impacted by the integration of technical facts.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze the dialectical intersection of technology and social existence.
- To examine the impact of technology on individual identity and everyday life.
- To explore medicalization as a reconfiguration of the social universe and its implications for healthcare practitioners.
Main Methods:
- Philosophical analysis of the social dialectic of technical facts.
- Examination of individual and social adaptation to technological advancements.
- Exploration of the impact of medicalization on social structures and individual lives.
Main Results:
- Technology actively reshapes individual realities, potentials, and life prospects.
- Individuals act as both users and creators of technology within the social universe.
- Medicalization reconfigures social spheres, necessitating a translation of medical language to individual social contexts.
Conclusions:
- The interaction between technical and social dimensions is central to human existence.
- Healthcare practitioners must adapt medicalization's language to the social dimension of individual lives.
- Interpreting medicalization's interests as social existence forms is essential.
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