Orientador: Sueli Terezinha Ferrero Martin / Resumo: In our study, we discuss the Medicalization of childhood, understood as a process that has been transforming questions that are historical-social in origin into merely biological questions. Due to the connection with the pharmaceutical industry and the biomedical field, different disorders are disseminated, concealing expressions of suffering and difficulties of going through life created by life conditions in capitalist society. The Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is among them, and is, according to the biomedical literature, more common throughout childhood, attributing a genetic cause in which the brain is reputed to be the origin of hiperactivity and inattention behavior. Even though this biomedical conception is hegemonic, there are studies showing the evolution of referrals from children schools to health units. These studies criticize the raise of diagnosis of this disorder during childhood, and point out that this phenomenon has a close link with the biomedical conception and the pharmaceutical industry, a relationship based on medication propagation and construction of diagnosis, resulting in the medicalization of childhood. In our study, we consider the ADHD phenomenon a health-illness process, questioning, thus, the subjacent conception of the disorder's biological determinism. According to the culturalhistorical psychology postulates adopted in our research, the biological-social relationship is defined as an inseparable unity in the development pr... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Mestre
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UNESP/oai:www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br:UEP01-000883829 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Santos, Regina Celia dos. |
| Contributors | Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" Faculdade de Medicina. |
| Publisher | Botucatu, |
| Source Sets | Universidade Estadual Paulista |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | computer file |
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