title: Bipolar disorder: An epidemic or a consequence of the medicalization of society?
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metadata.value: Mikhel, Dmitry V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-04-25T16:34:30Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-04-25T16:34:30Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-03
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metadata.value: Mikhel D. V. Bipolar disorder: An epidemic or a consequence of the medicalization of society? Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology, 2018, vol. 11, issue 1, pp. 51–65.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu12.2018.105
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/9478
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Social sciences today are very sensitive to public health problems, a fact which leads to the
  emergence of new research areas and discussions about new varieties of social problems. In
  this article, the author engages with the phenomenon of bipolar disorder, which the modern
  medical community estimates as another epidemic that requires special attention and resources.
  The rapid spread of this epidemic allows social scientists to question the nature and social
  factors that contribute to the rapid growth in the number of bipolar patients. Ideas about the
  reality of the epidemic are combined with the notion that it may be socially constructed by
  changes in the language of medical knowledge, as well as new strategies in medical practice and total pharmacologization of medical aid. The emergence of this epidemic also reflects the
  continuing medicalization of society. Agents of medicalization are not only doctors, but pharmaceutical
  corporations, the PR companies they cooperate with, and the patients themselves,
  seeking solutions to their personal problems with the help of psychotropic drugs. We can also
  consider patient experience and patient policy by which people adopt the illness and try to
  give a public meaning to the experience. Bipolar disorder can also be considered as a product
  of the culture of developed industrial society, which gives rise to the demand for an invariably
  energetic creative worker, because in connection with the computerization and robotization
  of monotonous manual labor, the mass need for a disciplined worker and office employee has
  almost disappeared.
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metadata.value: Публикация подготовлена в рамках поддержанного РГНФ научного проекта «Индивидуальный опыт болезни и страдания в контексте социокультурных трансформаций: философские проблемы медико-антропологических исследований» (№ 15-03-00348).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Sociology;Volume 11; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mental health of society
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: psycho-emotional life
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: bipolar disorder
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: epidemic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: medical theory
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: pharmacology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: medicalization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: patient experience
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: culture of developed industrial society
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Bipolar disorder: An epidemic or a consequence of the medicalization of society?
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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