Old and New Actors and Phenomena in the Three-M Processes of Life and Society: Medicalization, Moralization and Misinformation
A special issue of Societies (ISSN 2075-4698).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 June 2022) | Viewed by 26007
Special Issue Editors
2. Instituto de Saúde Ambiental (ISAMB), Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-028 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: health inequalities; social determinants of health; sexual and reproductive health and rights; life-course and well-being; social justice
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Interests: demography; sociology of population; sociology of birth and motherhood
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last 50 years, peoples’ lives and health have been increasingly defined and influenced across the life course and across levels of influence by different processes of medicalization and social control. Although medicalization is not a new concept, new actors, besides medical professionals and patients, and new phenomena, such as consumerism and human enhancement, influence the processes of transformation of human conditions into medical problems today.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of restrictions including lockdowns, quarantines, and sanitary cordons have been implemented in numerous countries and territories around the world in a state of total medicalization of the different spheres of everyday life: family, friends, education, work, health, recreation, etc. The pandemic also stressed the growing disparities in societies around the world, the making of new moral discourses around health, illness and wellness, and the impact of health misinformation.
Research regarding the range of social, cultural, and structural factors influencing the way those processes differently impact the health and wellbeing of individuals within an intersectional approach to gender, age, class, race/ethnicity, sexuality, (dis)ability, religion, and spirituality is needed. Papers are expected to contribute with social justice and equity-focused perspectives.
We welcome original articles and review articles based on comprehensive literature reviews from different academic disciplines that engage issues of medicalization, moralization, and misinformation of life and society, such as sociology, gender theory, anthropology, and psychology, based on theoretical analysis and/or empirical studies with different methodological approaches, including arts-based research and participatory methods. We also invite presentations that discuss the wide variety of ethical issues that arise from medicalization processes in areas ranging from medical research conduct to reproductive health or end-of-life care.
Dr. Violeta Alarcão
Dr. Sónia Cardoso Pintassilgo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- medicalization
- social control
- social norms
- gender norms
- health education
- health literacy
