Five in Five: Medicalization

The first episode of a new series where I try to take five studies on a given topic and summarize them in five minutes or....well, more, probably. Our first topic is the Medicalization of Mental Illness!

Sources:
Bell, & Figert. (2012). Medicalization and pharmaceuticalization at the intersections: Looking backward, sideways and forward. Social Science & Medicine, 75(5), 775-783.

Barker, K., & Galardi, T. (2015). Diagnostic Domain Defense. Autism Spectrum Disorder and the. Social Problems, 62(1), 120-140.

Galasiński, D., & Opaliński, K. (2012). Psychiatrists’ Accounts of Insight. Qualitative Health Research, 22(11), 1460–1467.

Hodgman, C. (2001). The "medicalization" of pediatric mental illness. Pediatric Annals, 30(3), 126-128.

Valentine, T. (2014). Medicalization of deviant behaviour as mental illness: A case study of two nursing homes, one public and one private. Retraite Et Societe, (67), 93-110.

Outro song, "We'll Make It Through":

I could never pretend to understand you
You could never tell me everything you are
We can only let the white coats lead us nowhere
and wonder how we ever got so far

And you call them with your pain and your persecution
and they tell 'bout the pill to fix it all
Just as long as you let'em do all the thinking
and know that the market's never wrong

We'll make it through x 4