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The concept of medicalisation reassessed : a response to Busfield

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Williams, Simon J., Coveney, Catherine and Gabe, Jonathan (2017) The concept of medicalisation reassessed : a response to Busfield. Sociology of Health & Illness, 39 (5). pp. 775-780. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.12576

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Abstract

Joan Busfield’s (2017) reassessment of the concept of medicalisation is a welcome and timely contribution to a key issue within medical sociology, past and present. Not simply medical sociology however. Medicalisation indeed, as Conrad (2015) himself notes, now carries ‘analytical weight’ in a range of disciplines beyond sociology including history, anthropology, bioethics, economics, media studies and feminism. To this of course we may add engagements within medicine itself as well as the wider circulation of ‘medicalisation’ within popular culture if not public consciousness today as a commonly used if not abused term of reference, thereby rending medicalisation a victim of its own success perhaps. Hence debates in recent years as to whether or not medicalisation has outlived its usefulness as a concept, including its relationship to other newly developed concepts and ways of theorising these matters, in sociology and beyond (Bell & Figert, 2015a,b, 2014; Rose, 2007).

Item Type: Journal Article
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Subjects: R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Medicalization, Social medicine
Journal or Publication Title: Sociology of Health & Illness
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
ISSN: 0141-9889
Official Date: June 2017
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June 2017Published
20 April 2017Available
24 February 2017Accepted
Date of first compliant deposit: 14 March 2017
Volume: 39
Number: 5
Page Range: pp. 775-780
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.12576
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
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