Historique
Chapitre
This is not medicalization
Auteur(s) :
FASSIN, D. ;
MACKIE, T.
Année :
2011
Page(s) :
85-93
Langue(s) :
Anglais
ISBN :
978-1-4094-0543-6
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Thésaurus mots-clés
MEDICALISATION
;
SOCIOLOGIE
;
ECHANGE DE SERINGUES
;
REDUCTION DES RISQUES ET DES DOMMAGES
;
METHADONE
;
CONCEPT
;
POLITIQUE
Thésaurus géographique
FRANCE
Résumé :
Fassin takes up the issue of medicalization, arguing that its power and its negative effects have been exaggerated in much of the sociological literature. He specifically examines the shift in France in the 1980s, from a focus on criminalizing drugs (with the idea that drug consumption itself is a major public health threat), to a focus on the dangers of needle sharing and the ensuing policies of needle exchange and methadone maintenance. Notions of medicalization only goes so far in providing us insight into understanding this transformation, because the medical establishment was heavily involved in both eras and both eras involved a process of medicalization (in one case medicalizing drug use as addiction, in the other medicalizing drug users in relation to infectious risk). To move beyond these impasses, Fassin emphasizes the importance of decoupling medicalization and pathologization, which he argues are too often used interchangeably. While in some instances medicalization contributes to pathologization, in others it can contribute to depathologization instead. [From the book's introduction]
Affiliation :
EHESS, France
Cote :
L01616