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This 3-page paper discusses the increase of medicalization, examples, and what to do about it. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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functioning with all kinds of ailments. On the other hand, were seeing more diagnoses for more diseases that, coincidentally, seem to be the "disease of the month." We see this
in outgoing, extroverted children who are diagnosed with ADHD, and were also seeing this in adults who demand prescriptions for clinical depression - even if they arent even clinically depressed.
Conrad (2005) reminds us that medicalization is nothing new - its been occurring since at least the 1970s, if not before. There have
always been "hypochondriacs" out there, after all. But recent developments, such as a more active role from the pharmaceutical industry toward consumers, combined with managed care, have led to issues
such as self-diagnosis and over medication. Nor is this just an adult phenom. Healy and LeNoury (2007) point out that bipolar disorder in
children is being diagnosed more and more - but the problem is that its happening during a time when solutions to bipolar disorder medication is being marketed with more frequency
to adults. In short, note Moynihan et al (2002): "A lot of money can be made from healthy people who believe they are
sick," and the pharmaceutical industry promotes this idea through sponsorships and commercials, all of which encourage widening the boundaries of treatable diseases (p. 886). Conrad agrees, noting that, while doctors
continue to be gatekeepers for any kind of medical care, "medicalization is now more driven by commercial and market interests then by professional claims-makers" (p. 4). Consumers and Medicalization
One or two generations ago, consumers would be content to let the doctors make the diagnosis and arrangements for treatment. Doctors, after all, were
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