Question

what aspects of american culture help to explain the phenomenon of medicalization? Think about characteristics of our culture that perpetuate this tendency

Answer 1

The phenomena of medicalization problem like drug , post trumatic stress disorder , sleep disorder , attention deficit hyperactive disorder etc greatly corelated with American culture. The different aspect of American culture like beliefs , values , liberity , equality , extreamly open minded , casual relationship , somehow affect in medicalization and helps to better understand of it . Today , most alarming issues in american mental illness like depression , anxiety etc which have started to observed among youth . In American culture , people are not accountable of their relationship . Therefore , single parents are gradually increasing and causes various medicalization problem like sleep deprivation , Attention deficit disorder etc . Besides The life style of American people so mechanical which unable to develop good social relationship . Sometimes only because huge job pressure and other anxiety related problem , many people suffered in infertility problem which also create another medicalization problem as erectile dysfunction . Another characterstics of this culture is huge exploration media and technology , Taking soft drink , junk food , also creates major mental problem and leads to medicalization . The phenomena of medicalization is to understand medical problem of human life wheather it may be physical or mental greatly affect with the American culture . Because certain believe , values and cultural tradition leads to explosion human ethical values and morality . Like hook up culture of American people , pop culture , homosexual relationship etc lead to create medicalization problem .