Medicalisation



Stub. On the mechanics and political economy of calling things diseases.

Bites hard in depression, nootropics, personality disorders etc.

Incoming

Sam Atis, in More notes on ADHD, connects ADHD medication to nootropics and finds no meaningful differentiation.

Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease.

References

Haslam, Nick. 2016. Concept Creep: Psychology’s Expanding Concepts of Harm and Pathology.” Psychological Inquiry 27 (1): 1–17.

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