Social Gerontology: The Medicalization of Old Age
THE MEDICALIZATION OF OLD AGE Like religion and law, medicine is a moral enterprise as it defines and manages individuals deemed undesirable by the broader culture (Eliot Freidson, The Profession of Medicine). Over the course of the twentieth century, deviance has increasingly been medicalized, as is evident in our public discourse: one is no longer a drunkard but rather suffers from ...
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