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Medicalization of Childhood: Sociocultural Genealogy

https://doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2015-0-4-34-39

Abstract

The article reconstructs sociocultural genealogy of the process of childhood medicalization. The author reveals a social context that causes the establishment of medical regulation of various phenomena of a child’s existence as a norm in the contemporary European culture; some global anthropological effects of the regulation are demonstrated. Reconstructing the origin of childhood medicalization from the culture of charity institutions, the author determines interrelations between the modern project of children’s health protection and the process of control of children’s existence’s marginal phenomena and defines some existential consequences of the typical for the present medico-technological identity of childhood.

About the Author

Kseniya A. Kukso
Saint Petersburg State University of Technology and Design
Russian Federation


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Kukso K.A. Medicalization of Childhood: Sociocultural Genealogy. Observatory of Culture. 2015;(4):34-39. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2015-0-4-34-39

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