Adolescence as a culture-bound syndrome

Robert F. Hill and J. Dennis Fortenberry

Social Science & Medicine, 1992, vol. 35, issue 1, 73-80

Abstract: In keeping with an expanded definition of culture-bound syndromes, this paper argues that adolescence in American society has been 'medicalized' into a full-blown symptom complex or pathologic condition. Culture-bound syndromes in highly differentiated societies such as the U.S., may be taxanomically sorted by distinctive cultural identity system domains of age, gender, family, vocation and ethnicity.

Keywords: adolescence; American; society; medicine; psychiatry; culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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