The social construction of psychiatric disorders

An excellent paper on the social construction of psychiatric “disorders”. The drug companies are targeted, perhaps legitimately though it must be said that the same process is also at work for conditions which do not have any putative pharmaceutical treatment.

In case that’s too dry a description, the topic is compulsive shopping 🙂

http://sociology.rutgers.edu/DOCUMENTS/conf_papers/Hemler_Jennifer.pdf

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