MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE: CRITICAL THINKING OF HEALTH ACTION FROM THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.558342313014

• Palavras-chave: Medicalization; Pathologization; Normal and Pathological

• Keywords: Medicalization; Pathologization; Normal and Pathological

• Abstract:

  This article aims to think about different aspects that surround the phenomenon of medicalization, considering the health-disease process and the pathologization of life. The theoretical construction was based on critical perspectives that questioned attitudes and ways of thinking about the medicalization/pathologization of life, which are crystallized in society in the form of its most diverse norms for classifying health and normality. The process of medicalization/pathologization of life is growing not only in Brazil, but throughout the world, a topic that needs to be discussed with due caution so as not to spread practices linked to medicalization. For this study, a bibliographical review was carried out, with the purpose of obtaining and analyzing information in a qualitative way, presenting discussions thinking about the performance of the various areas of health, including psychology, where medicalization is delineated and defined, addressing aspects aimed at criticism social control, health and disease processes and the capitalist system as having a strong influence on the processes of medicalization/pathologization.