TY  - CHAP
AB  - Medicalization is the increasing social control of the everyday by medical experts. It is a key concept in the sociology of health and illness because it sees medicine as not merely a scientific endeavor, but a social one as well. Medicalization is a “process whereby more and more of everyday life has come under medical dominion, influence, and supervision” (Zola, 1983, p. 295); previously these areas of everyday life were viewed in religious or moral terms (Conrad & Schneider, 1980; Weeks, 2003). More specifically, medicalization is the process of “defining a problem in medical terms, using medical language to describe a problem, adopting a medical framework to understand a problem, or using a medical intervention to ‘treat’ it” (Conrad, 1992, p. 211). Sociologists have used this concept to describe the shift in the site of decision-making and knowledge about health from the lay public to the medical profession.
VL  - 11
SN  - 978-0-76231-256-6, 978-1-84950-376-1/1537-4661
DO  - 10.1016/S1537-4661(05)11006-X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S1537-4661(05)11006-X
AU  - McCabe Janice
ED  - David A. Kinney
ED  - Katherine Brown Rosier
PY  - 2005
Y1  - 2005/01/01
TI  - Who are the Experts? Medicalization in Teen Magazine Advice Columns
T2  - Sociological Studies of Children and Youth
T3  - Sociological Studies of Children and Youth
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 153
EP  - 191
Y2  - 2024/09/24
ER  -