La pharmacologisation de la ménopause

Thoër-Fabre, Christine; Lévy, Joseph Josy

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“…Certains médicaments semblent ainsi de moins en moins perçus comme des produits artificiels, du fait de leur inscription dans le quotidien, mais aussi parce qu'ils permettent l'atteinte d'états « plus réels que réels » 11 (Basalmo, 1996, cité dans Mamo et Fishman, 2001. Cette capacité des molécules à se fondre dans le corps a été mise en évidence, pour certaines populations, pour l'hormonothérapie (Thoër-Fabre et Levy, 2007), le Viagra (Potts, 2004 ;Mamo et Fishman, 2001), mais aussi les psychotropes qui ne sont pas perçus comme des médicaments à part entière (Haxaire, 2002 ;Fainzang, 2001). …”

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Quelques réflexions sur des pratiques d’utilisation des médicaments hors cadre médical

Thoër

Pierret

Lévy

2009

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La progression de l’utilisation « non médicale » des médicaments, que ceux-ci soient disponibles avec ou sans ordonnance, apparaît aujourd’hui comme une préoccupation d’importance croissante dans le champ de la santé publique. Cette tendance, qui touche particulièrement les adolescents et les jeunes adultes, englobe une multitude de pratiques, allant du détournement à l’automédication en passant par « l’abus » et le dopage, pratiques qui seront définies ici et qui peuvent conduire au développement d’une dépendance au médicament. S’appuyant sur une revue de la littérature en sciences sociales et en santé publique, cet article met en évidence les problèmes que soulève la catégorisation des pratiques, notamment parce que les frontières entre les usages licites et illicites du médicament semblent de plus en plus brouillées dans les sociétés contemporaines. L’utilisation « non médicale » du médicament s’inscrit dans un contexte social marqué par un plus grand accès aux produits pharmaceutiques et aux savoirs qui s’y rapportent ainsi que par une tendance à la banalisation du recours chimique dans la vie quotidienne. Cet usage de l’assistance chimique à la vie quotidienne soulève la question de l’autonomie du sujet en santé et du rapport des individus à l’expertise médicale.The increase in non-medical use of prescription drugs and OTCs is becoming a serious public health issue. Non-medical use of medicines is more common among adolescents and young adults and includes practices such as drug diversion, self-medication, drug abuse, and doping. Using the literature published in public health and social sciences, this paper shows that categorizing drug-taking practices can be problematic as the distinction between illicit and licit use of medicines is becoming blurred in contemporary societies. Non medical use of prescription drugs is situated within a broader social context where greater access to prescription drugs and health information is provided and where the use of medicines is integrated into everyday life. It raises issues related to autonomy in healthcare and to the lay-expert relationship.La progresión del uso “no médico” de los medicamentos, ya sea que estén disponibles con o sin receta, constituye en la actualidad un problema cada vez más importante en el campo de la salud pública. Esta tendencia, que toca particularmente a los adolescentes y los adultos jóvenes, engloba una cantidad de prácticas que van de la utilización indebida a la automedicación, pasando por “el abuso” y el dopaje, prácticas que se definirán aquí y que pueden conducir al desarrollo de una dependencia al medicamento. Apoyándose en una revisión de la bibliografía de las ciencias sociales y la salud pública, este artículo pone en evidencia los problemas que representa la categorización de las prácticas, principalmente porque las fronteras entre los usos lícitos e ilícitos del medicamento parecen ser cada vez menos claras en las sociedades contemporáneas. El uso “no médico” del medicamento se inscribe en un contexto social marcado por un mayor...

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Quelques réflexions sur des pratiques d’utilisation des médicaments hors cadre médical

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Lévy

2009

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“…The "surgery of age" (Moulinié, 1998) aligns the human body with standards of development or shields it from the ravages of time (Vincent, 2006;Dalgalarrondo and Hauray, 2015). Through hormonal corrections, a biological materiality is adjusted to social ambitions of self-optimization, to gender social identities, and to age status (Oudshoorn, 1994;Conrad and Potter, 2004;Toër-Fabre and Levy, 2007;Fishman et al, 2010).…”

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Illegitimate bodies? Turner syndrome and the silent interplay of age, gender, and generational positions

Diasio

2023

Front. Sociol.

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This paper focuses on the strength of social norms that define the right development of the body in time. It also analyzes how the social positions of age, gender and generation intertwine in the definition of such a legitimate body. The starting point is anthropological research carried out in France between 2018 and 2020 among girls and women affected by Turner syndrome, a rare genetic condition causing small stature, ovarian insufficiency, a delay or absence of puberty, and infertility. We first explore how measuring the body has become central in the social construction of the concept of age-appropriateness. We then present four women' narratives, which express various forms of desynchronization: the gap between physical appearance, chronological age and age status; the cleft between the physical development induced by hormone therapy and being in a particular stage in life; the difference between chronological and reproductive age; and lastly, the trouble in a generational position related to infertility. For women suffering from this genetic condition, the gap between bodies, time and social statuses associated with age, gender and generation, may engender a feeling of “being out of place.” The alignment of body and time is then one of the bastions of essentialization and naturalization. Finally, we stress the complex interplay of bodily and social markers of age and gender, and their role in social relations as both a resource and a constraint. Thus, while the syndrome may cause distress and sometimes a lack of legitimacy, it also leads to a critical re-examination of hegemonic models of womanhood and their intersection with age positions.

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Addiction to Cosmetic Surgery: Representations and Medicalization of the Body

Suissa

2008

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Contemporary social transformations of the body are essentially mediated by medical discourse. With the body conceived of as "soft and modifiable," we are witnessing an unprecedented rise in recourse to medicine in order to validate primarily social conditions. In this context, plastic surgery functions as a modality of social control and management, not only of the physical body as such, but at the social level as well. Physical, because plastic surgery allows one to modify the external and visible organs (face, breasts, legs, nose, etc.), and social, because it proposes a social model of the ideal body that goes beyond the one inherited from the biological parents. If the past sheds light on the present, one might wonder whether there are any representations of the body in history that can help us understand better the contemporary phenomenon of cosmetic surgery. What do we mean by the medicalization of bodies? How does a psychosocial condition change from having a social status to a medical one? How can we explain the extraordinary popularity of plastic surgery as a socially acceptable, and desirable, behavior? To answer these questions, based on a review of the literature, this article analyzes the social trend towards the medicalization of bodies via plastic surgery. To that end, four main aspects will be examined: (1) a brief overview of the body's representation throughout history; (2) a reminder that medicalization is a mode of social control; (3) psychosocial factors that influence the recourse to plastic surgery; (4) cultural examples that demonstrate how important cultural values are in shaping the different trajectories regarding plastic surgery. In conclusion, the author suggests considering social ties as a major component in the social intervention process.

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La pharmacologisation de la ménopause

Cited by 8 publications

References 35 publications

Quelques réflexions sur des pratiques d’utilisation des médicaments hors cadre médical

Quelques réflexions sur des pratiques d’utilisation des médicaments hors cadre médical

Illegitimate bodies? Turner syndrome and the silent interplay of age, gender, and generational positions

Addiction to Cosmetic Surgery: Representations and Medicalization of the Body

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