The public’s demand for solutions to behavioral problems drives medicalization of social issues.

Evidence

In recent years considerable attention has been devoted to the trend towards “medicalization” of social problems. Advanced by physicians and supported by a public anxious to think that there are “solutions” to behav- ioral “problems,” the medical model has intruded into the worlds of education and corrections, and other environments in which human development is at issue. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1088

Categorization

• QUESTION: The excerpt ends mid-word (‘behav-’), which may be an artifact of the chapter’s line breaks; verify against the source that the paragraph continues ‘behavioral problems’ before citing it.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism converts political antagonisms into individualised medical conditions. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1761; Medicalizing depression blocks political explanation of its systemic causes — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 46; Biologizing mental illness conveniently depoliticizes its social causes — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 82 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism converts political antagonisms into individualised medical conditions. #contradicts (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1761
• Medicalizing depression blocks political explanation of its systemic causes #expands (0.80) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 46
• Biologizing mental illness conveniently depoliticizes its social causes #expands (0.80) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 82
• Psychiatric diagnoses double as worries about social cohesion #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 173