La medicalización de los problemas sociales

Abstract

The present article analyzed the topic of medicalization of social problems as an inappropriate extension of the medical model that brings about three negative consequences: methodological nemesis, clinical nemesis and social nemesis. Several examples were drawn from the current medical literature, with a special emphasis on the medicalization of social violence and the ideological misuse of science in the past and, unfortunately, at present. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]