Vedadhir, Abu Ali

[ 1 ] - The doctors' foot in the shoes of sociologists; A critique of Medicalization of Addiction in Iran

Objectives: Medicalization of society means the penetration and spread of medical discourse to subjects and areas of the community that was previously available to other discourses and different types of knowledge. Drug addiction, as a multidimensional social phenomenon, gradually emerged from the social sphere and was dominated by medical discourse. This research tries to identify, on the one ...