The Medicalization of Society
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- čas přidán 3. 04. 2013
- Peter Conrad, PhD is the Harry Coplin Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University. This lecture will consider the origins and consequences of the increased medicalization of society using specific examples. It will examine how medicalization manifests itself in many quarters and where there is both support of and resistance to medicalized diagnoses and treatments. The lecture will also present emerging areas of medicalization and speculate on the future of medicalized responses to human conditions.
Lecture begins at 6:00
I never thought I might be able to find something about medicalisation on CZcams, leave alone that comes from Peter Conrad. Having read some of his books and articles, I was super excited to see the video of his talk. Thanks for uploading.
I have an exam about this.. this is so amazing thank you conrad for explaining your work because that book is not easy to read lol
Thanks for the lecture.
This was such a great lecture.
amazing talk, captivating thank you so much
Great lecture. Thanks. Dr. Thomas Szasz is the genius though.
Anyone have a transcript?
i wishhhh
Big pharma is not only manufacturing drugs but more importantly the desire to massively consume them .Big pharma is a capitalistic hub which is fulled by profit first and foremost and before people by far and way .
Throughout my medical career I see big pharma is intrusively occupying and ever growing space by taking lower thresholds to redefine diseases .
Cholesterol ,BP and blood sugar are redefined by lower thresholds .Trials are all out to show amazing outcome if people are treated to lower and lower level .The notion ,the lower the better is meant to fuel consumption to unabated scales .
I'm in pharmacy and I quit my job bc of this. it makes me so angry I literally cannot deal with it bc I can't serve my patients without seeing all the overmedicalizing happening to them. it drives me insane and I can't stop thinking about the level of greed and injustice my patients have faced. and their doctors now don't know anything. they call us asking basic questions that even techs can answer. they call us asking complex questions about specific things to prescribe bc they are clueless. they don't communicate with each other so we often are coordinating the patient's care instead of their primary care doctor.
I can't. I've been medicalized and overmedicalized my entire life and it's getting worse ever since I got diagnosed with endometriosis. instead of just giving me pain relief they want to send me to 15 different doctors for 30 different treatments and surgerys. we are being used as walking lab rats bc human experiments are illegal.
Couldn't different menopause symptoms among different populations have a biological explanation as well? Shouldn't this possibility have been considered?
Yes, but you must negate how society shapes biological outcomes.
yes. this lecture is pretty bad. overmedicalizing is such a huge issue and part of the reason is sexism and lack of studies on women.
I cant understand how Dr Conrad can remain agnostic on the harm caused by medicine?
Trade-offs
we really need to be more concerned with why medical conditions are not being studied and rather being labeled psychogenic. which is frankly what most of this lecture implies. this is almost like a backwards way of saying medically unexplained symptoms are NOTHING