The Expanding Medical Gaze
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According to the text, what is one potential problem of medicalization?

  • Medicalization can bring about powerful biomedical solutions.
  • Medicalization individualizes and de-contextualizes behavioral problems. (correct)
  • Medicalization is a form of social control.
  • Medicalization can bring about cultural and material resources for patients.

    • What is one example of a broader context mentioned in the text?

  • The need for patients to learn more productive coping strategies.
  • Substance abuse as a coping strategy for some people living in chronic poverty. (correct)
  • The body experiencing withdrawal symptoms without the substance.
  • The patient needing to go through rehab to manage the process.

    • What is one example of a broader context mentioned in the text?

  • Working multiple part-time jobs making it difficult to exercise.
  • Living in unsafe neighborhoods making it difficult to exercise. (correct)
  • The patient needing to try harder in terms of their eating habits and lack of exercise.
  • The patient needing education about diet and exercise.

    • According to the text, what is medicalization?

    <p>A process by which a nonmedical problem becomes defined and/or treated as a medical problem.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is an example of a condition that has been medicalized according to the text?

    <p>ADHD</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are some consequences of medicalization?

    <p>Positive and negative consequences</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to the text, what percentage of children (3-17) were diagnosed with ADHD in 2018?

    <p>9.8%</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to the CDC study mentioned, what percentage of children with ADHD received both medication and behavioral interventions?

    <p>32%</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to the text, what did the 2017 U of Florida study find about young kids diagnosed with ADHD?

    <p>They were more likely to have learning disabilities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Foucault, what is one danger of medicalization?

    <p>Doctors telling us what's normal/abnormal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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