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Foucault and the Medicalisation Critique- Deborah Lupton
Deborah Lupton is discussing the issue of Medicalisation in this chapter from two very different perspectives, the first being the Orthodox Medicalisation Critique and the second the Foucauldian Perspective. ...
The first, the Orthodox Medicalisation Critique arose initially from Marxist perspectives. ... Many sociologists took up this critique in their own professional work, trying to challenge the power of the medical profession. ... This idea that individuals shouldn’t have their autonomy constrained by people seen as being more powerful is central to the ideas of the Medicalisation Critique. ...
The Medicalisation Critique has been viewed enthusiastically by feminist critics of medicine, for example Ehrenreich a feminist critic viewed the medical profession as patriarchal, and that it uses the definitions of illness and disease to maintain inequality of women by drawing attention to their weakness and susceptibility to illness.
The Medicalisation Critique was one of the most dominant perspectives in the sociology of health and illness in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
Although the Critique may itself be criticized on a number of grounds. ...
Although Foucault and his followers may not use the term Medicalisation, one of their central contentions is that society is highly medicalised, in an effort to regulate and maintain social order as well as promoting good health.
Approximate Word count = 945
Approximate Pages = 3.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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