Old and New Actors and Phenomena in the Three-M Processes of Life and Society: Medicalization, Moralization and Misinformation

Violeta Alarcão; Sónia Pintassilgo

doi:10.3390/soc13010017

Societies (Jan 2023)

Old and New Actors and Phenomena in the Three-M Processes of Life and Society: Medicalization, Moralization and Misinformation

Violeta Alarcão,
Sónia Pintassilgo

Affiliations

Violeta Alarcão: Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Iscte), Avenida das Forças Armadas, 1649-026 Lisboa, Portugal
Sónia Pintassilgo: Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Iscte), Avenida das Forças Armadas, 1649-026 Lisboa, Portugal

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/soc13010017
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
p. 17

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Medicalization has been a key concept in the field of the sociology of health and illness over the past 50 years, capturing the expanding social control of everyday life by medical experts [...]

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Published in Societies

ISSN: 2075-4698 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Social Sciences: Social sciences (General)
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/societies

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