Medicalizing disabled people's emotions—Symptom of a dis/ableist society

The theoretical–conceptual article at hand explores how emotional discourses shape social relations by specifically focusing on the medicalization of disabled— and chronically ill—people's emotions. Medicalization is a concept from medical sociology that describes medicine's expansion into...

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Main Author: Yvonne Wechuli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Sociology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1230361/full