Construction of mental health categories

La construction des catégories diagnostiques de maladie mentale

Cédric Brun (), Steeves Demazeux (), Pierangelo Di Vittorio, François Gonon (), Philippe Gorry, Jan Peter Konsman, Fanny Lung, Yannick Lung, Michel Minard, Matthieu Montalban, Nicole Rumeau and Andy Smith ()
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Cédric Brun: SPH - Sciences, Philosophie, Humanités - UB - Université de Bordeaux - UBM - Université Bordeaux Montaigne
Steeves Demazeux: IHPST - Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - DEC - Département d'Etudes Cognitives - ENS-PSL - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, SPH - Sciences, Philosophie, Humanités - UB - Université de Bordeaux - UBM - Université Bordeaux Montaigne
Pierangelo Di Vittorio: MSHA - Maison des sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine - UBM - Université Bordeaux Montaigne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
François Gonon: IMN - Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives [Bordeaux] - UB - Université de Bordeaux - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Jan Peter Konsman: CRMSB - Centre de résonance magnétique des systèmes biologiques - UB - Université de Bordeaux - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Fanny Lung: CED - Centre Émile Durkheim - IEP Bordeaux - Sciences Po Bordeaux - Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux - UB - Université de Bordeaux - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, SOFOR - Sud Ouest Formation Recherche
Nicole Rumeau: SOFOR - Sud Ouest Formation Recherche
Andy Smith: CED - Centre Émile Durkheim - IEP Bordeaux - Sciences Po Bordeaux - Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux - UB - Université de Bordeaux - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques [FNSP]

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Abstract: Within the framework of a political economy approach, the paper analyses the social construction of both markets and illnesses in the field of mental health, linked with the recent debates associated to the publication of the latter classification of mental disorders (DSM-5). Illustrated by the example of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), this way of analysing the political work carried out by different actors (pharmaceutical firms, parent of patient associations, the school system, the state, the wealth system, etc.) discerns their respective roles and, in particular, enables research to understand considerable differences between the French and US cases. More than just enlightening ethical questions in the field of mental health, studying the production of scientific discourse about a specific illness identifies the economy of research financing and of scientific publication that drives actor interactions and interdependencies.

Keywords: ADHD; DSM; pharmaceutical industry; mental health; political economy; psychiatry; TDAH; santé mentale; psychiatrie; industrie pharmaceutique; économie politique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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Published in Revue de la régulation. Capitalisme, institutions, pouvoirs, 2015, Économie politique de la santé. Un exemple exemplaire, 17, pp.[en ligne]. ⟨10.4000/regulation.11299⟩

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DOI: 10.4000/regulation.11299

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