Chapter 9

1. The historical name for what is now known as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
3. A person or group who promotes new definitions of deviance or illness for social or political influence.
5. A common childhood disorder often used as an example of behaviour being medicalized.
9. The modern phase of medicalization emphasizes high-tech or genetic and pharmaceutical control of the body.
11. Process The process whereby more and more of social life becomes medicalized as medicine expands its jurisdiction in four different ways.
12. Observable signs or experiences that signal possible illness or abnormality.

2. The increasing emphasis and reliance on drugs within the medical profession and within society.
4. The process of defining non-medical issues as medical problems in need of diagnosis or treatment.
6. Psychiatry’s “bible” that classifies and names recognized mental disorders.
7. A focus on health as a source of life’s meaning.
8. A condition that is labelled and treated medically even though it may not be a true biological illness.
10. Harm or illness that results directly from medical treatment or intervention.