MEDICALIZATION OF EDUCATION AND STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE

Abstract

A universalizing atmosphere of childhood medicalization, faced with a multiplicity of diagnoses and therapies that refer to an “extreme biologism”, neglects the complexity of the subjective processes of the human being. Labels and labels, masked by diagnostics enters a stage where it can only drag behind humanity sees no and the abuse of psychotropics, are globalized there, responding to the globalization of a system that, in a dead end, in a crisis of global extension where profit no barriers to amplifying its predatory condition. In the field of medicalization of education, the pharmaceutical industry has been fulfilling this purpose, with consequences that we are far from having data to assess in its depth and complexity. With regard to the medicalization of school education, the current situation of the naturalized and politically legitimized scope of the transposition to the education of the diagnostic-treatment model and the dramatically excessive appeal to the drug route configure and illustrate the breadth of these effects.