Medicalisation by non-medical personnel in English literature

作者：Pridmore Saxby^*; Garcia Juan

来源：Australasian Psychiatry, 2014, 22(5): 454-457.

DOI：10.1177/1039856214545554

• English literature
• medicalisation
• non-medical problems
• novels
• plays
• sociology
• terminology
• word origins
• word usage

Objective: To determine whether English literature contains depictions of medicalisation by non-medical people. %26lt;br%26gt;Method: English literature was examined by us and skilled readers. %26lt;br%26gt;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. %26lt;br%26gt;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.

• 出版日期2014-10