Medicalization of Old Age: Experiencing Healthism and Overdiagnosis in a Nordic Welfare State.

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Epub Date: 2024-05-16 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2024.2349515

Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson

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Abstract

In Denmark, people are expected to take responsibility for their health, not least as their bodies age and they experience signs of physical or mental decline. Drawing on fieldwork among older Danes, I illustrate that an excessive focus on health gives rise to social and structural controversies and disparities, linking ideas of healthy behavior at the individual level with the societal framing of disease and aging. I argue that this emphasis contributes to the unwarranted diagnosis of bodily variations that naturally occur in the aging process, a phenomenon referred to as overdiagnosis, adding to a broader medicalization of old age.

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老年医疗化：在北欧福利国家体验健康主义和过度诊断》（Medicalization of Old Age: Experiencing Healthism and Overdiagnosis in a Nordic Welfare State）。

在丹麦，人们被期望对自己的健康负责，尤其是当他们的身体老化，出现身体或精神衰退的迹象时。通过对丹麦老年人的实地调查，我说明了过度关注健康会引发社会和结构性争议和差异，将个人层面的健康行为观念与社会对疾病和衰老的框架联系起来。我认为，对健康的过度关注会导致对衰老过程中自然出现的身体变化进行毫无根据的诊断，这种现象被称为过度诊断，从而加剧了更广泛的老年医疗化。

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Medical Anthropology Multiple-

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4.10

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期刊介绍： Medical Anthropology provides a global forum for scholarly articles on the social patterns of ill-health and disease transmission, and experiences of and knowledge about health, illness and wellbeing. These include the nature, organization and movement of peoples, technologies and treatments, and how inequalities pattern access to these. Articles published in the journal showcase the theoretical sophistication, methodological soundness and ethnographic richness of contemporary medical anthropology. Through the publication of empirical articles and editorials, we encourage our authors and readers to engage critically with the key debates of our time. Medical Anthropology invites manuscripts on a wide range of topics, reflecting the diversity and the expanding interests and concerns of researchers in the field.