Course curriculum

  • 1

    Day 1. Medicalization’s Causes and Consequences

    • What is medicalization?

    • Why do problems become medicalized?

    • What are the effects of medicalization?
  • 2

    Day 2. Cases of Medicalization

    • Introduction to Day 2

    • Pharmaceuticalization and the creation of disease

    • Patients’ movements seeking medicalization of contested illnesses

    • Demedicalization of gender transitions
  • 3

    Discussion Prep

    • Points to ponder