Open AccessMedicalization of Childhood: Sociocultural Genealogy
Author(s) -
Kseniya A. Kukso
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
observatoriâ kulʹtury
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2588-0047
pISSN - 2072-3156
DOI - 10.25281/2072-3156-2015-0-4-34-39
Subject(s) - medicalization , sociocultural evolution , existentialism , sociology , identity (music) , norm (philosophy) , context (archaeology) , gender studies , political science , anthropology , psychology , history , law , aesthetics , psychiatry , philosophy , archaeology
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.