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In Medicalizing Ethnicity, Vilma Santiago-Irizarry shows how commendable intentions can produce unintended consequences. Santiago-Irizarry conducted ethnographic fieldwork in three bilingual, bicultural psychiatric programs for Latino patients at public mental health facilities in New York City. The introduction of "cultural sensitivity" in mental health clinics, she concludes, led doctors to construct essentialized, composite versions of Latino ethnicity in their drive to treat mental illness with sensitivity. The author demonstrates that stressing Latino differences when dealing with patients resulted not in empowerment, as intended, but in the reassertion of Anglo-American standards of behavior in the guise of psychiatric categories by which Latino culture was negatively defined. For instance, doctors routinely translated their patients' beliefs in the Latino religious traditions of espiritismo and Santería into psychiatric terms, thus treating these beliefs as pathologies.Interpreting mental health care through the framework of culture and politics has potent effects on the understanding of "normality" toward which such care aspires. At the core of Medicalizing Ethnicity is the very definition of multiculturalism used by a variety of institutional settings in an attempt to mandate equality.

Medicalization --- Ethnopsychology --- Psychiatry, Transcultural --- Hispanic Americans --- Mental health services

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Biopharmaceutics. --- Drug Industry --- Drug Therapy --- Genetic Phenomena. --- Medicalization. --- Pharmaceutical biotechnology. --- trends. --- trends.

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"Health practitioners working in gray zones, or between official and unofficial medicines, played a fundamental role in shaping Latin America from the colonial period onward. The Gray Zones of Medicine offers a human, relatable, complex examination of the history of health and healing in Latin America across five centuries. Contributors uncover how biographical narratives of individual actors-outside those of hegemonic biomedical knowledge, careers of successful doctors, public health initiatives, and research and medical institutions-can provide a unique window into larger social, cultural, political, and economic historical changes and continuities in the region. They reveal the power of such stories to illuminate intricacies and resilient features of the history of health and disease, and they demonstrate the importance of escaping analytical constraints posed by binary frameworks of legality/illegality, learned/popular, and orthodoxy/heterodoxy when writing about the past. Through an accessible and story-like format, this book unlocks the potential of historical narratives of healings to understand and give nuance to processes too frequently articulated through intellectual medical histories or the lenses of empires, nation-states, and their institutions"--

Healers --- Medical personnel --- Traditional medicine --- Therapeutics --- Medical sciences --- Diseases and history --- Medicalization --- History.

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Wir leben im Zeitalter des asymptomatischen Menschen. Die Medikalisierung unserer Lebenswelt ist so weit vorangeschritten, dass Krankheitsbegriffe, die unseren Alltag maßgeblich prägen, kaum noch Überschneidungen mit unserer sinnlichen Erfahrung aufweisen. Lebenswissenschaften, Biotechnologien und Versorgungssysteme bestimmen unseren Umgang mit Gegenwart, Körper und Macht. Bildgebende Verfahren und Bioinformatik verwandeln medizinische Prognostik in einen selbstreferenziellen Wert. Hans Vogt zeigt: Nicht mehr nur bestimmte Lebensabschnitte haben Krankheitsstatus. Vielmehr bewegt sich der Mensch der Spätmoderne stets in fließend ineinander übergehenden Modulationen einer lebenslangen Diagnose.

Alzheimer; Demenz; Medikalisierung; Neurowissenschaften; Biopolitik; Alter; Medizin; Gesellschaft; Medizinsoziologie; Körper; Soziologie; Alzheimer's Disease; Dementia; Medicalization; Neuroscience; Biopolitics; Aging Studies; Medicine; Society; Sociology of Medicine; Body; Sociology --- Aging Studies. --- Biopolitics. --- Body. --- Dementia. --- Medicalization. --- Medicine. --- Neuroscience. --- Society. --- Sociology of Medicine. --- Sociology.

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First published in 1690, The Court Midwife made Justine Siegemund (1636-1705) the spokesperson for the art of midwifery at a time when most obstetrical texts were written by men. More than a technical manual, The Court Midwife contains descriptions of obstetric techniques of midwifery and its attendant social pressures. Siegemund's visibility as a writer, midwife, and proponent of an incipient professionalism accorded her a status virtually unknown to German women in the seventeenth century. Translated here into English for the first time, The Court Midwife contains riveting birthing scenes, sworn testimonials by former patients, and a brief autobiography.

Midwifery --- Nursing specialties --- Midwives --- midwife, midwifery, obstetrics, pregnancy, childbirth, medicine, public health, professionalization, gender, women, history, germany, brandenburg, gynecology, nonfiction, children, delivery, female doctors, birthing, complications, breech, forceps, medical control, medicalization, 1700s, 17th century, 18th, fertility, afterbirth, disease, death, mortality.