adolescence pt 3 medicalization blair and kirkland Flashcards
1
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20th century
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adolescents presented as a “social problem”
medicine was a powerful domain through which this problem was identified and controlled
2
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adolescents being a “social problem” linked with the following factors
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- increased socio-economic demand
- WW1 WW2
- mixed-sex socialization
- popular youth and culture
- together these factors seemed to challenge the status quo
3
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who were the healthiest of all age groups?
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12-24 but they were constructed as problematic
4
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proffessionalism
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psychologists, psychiatrists, educators, social workers formulated a body of shared ideas and approaches of the “health of young”
- led to the establishment of theories of modern adolescence, establishment of regulatory policies intended to enforce what is “normal” in each life stage
- ie. IQ tests, age-graded schools, public health agendas
5
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The importance of “normal”
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- this concerned share across scientific disciplines
- connected fears about the destabilization of western society as a result of:
industrialization
urbanization
mass immigration - adolescents framed as vulnerable and key roles to combat and control
6
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Key tenets that remain with us today
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- the disease model framed adolescence as a state of disequilibrium triggered by the biological imperatives of sexual maturation
- just as the liminal nature of adolescence explained many of its characteristics, it ALSO provided an opportune time moment for medical intervention
- bodies of adolescents became objects for adult regulation and control, in the interests of their safe passage to the ultimate human developmental stage - civil adult
7
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project involved
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- supervision to ensure normality
- development of scientific regimes
- controlling every aspects of adolescents lives
- above ALL stabilization of youth during this important time period for so much depended on the”rising generation”
