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Medicalisation by non-medical personnel in English literature
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Pridmore, S and Garcia, J, Medicalisation by non-medical personnel in English literature, Australasian Psychiatry, 22, (5) pp. 454-457. ISSN 1039-8562 (2014) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2014 The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
DOI: doi:10.1177/1039856214545554
Abstract
Objective: To determine whether English literature contains depictions of medicalisation by non-medical people.
Method: English literature was examined by us and skilled readers.
Results: We identified four examples: two from Macbeth and two from Vanity Fair. Not only were non-medical people the instigators, but in each publication there is one example of the advice of a medical professional (whom denied the existence of a medical problem) opinion being rejected.
Conclusions: Evidence from the work of respected authors indicates that medicalisation was practiced long before it was described in the 1970s, that it may be instigated by non-medical people, and that it may continue after medical professionals deny the existence of medical problems.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | English literature, medicalisation, non-medical problems, novels, plays, sociology, terminology, word origins, word usage |
| Research Division: | Medical and Health Sciences |
| Research Group: | Clinical Sciences |
| Research Field: | Clinical Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Objective Division: | Health |
| Objective Group: | Clinical Health (Organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions) |
| Objective Field: | Clinical Health (Organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions) not elsewhere classified |
| Author: | Pridmore, S (Professor Saxby Pridmore) |
| ID Code: | 96112 |
| Year Published: | 2014 |
| Deposited By: | Medicine (Discipline) |
| Deposited On: | 2014-10-20 |
| Last Modified: | 2017-11-02 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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