Deck 46: The Medicalization of Unhappiness, Ronald Wdworkin

Question 1

According to Dworkin, medical science is increasingly unable to distinguish everyday unhappiness from ______.

A)Schizophrenia
B)Clinical depression
C)Bipolar disorder
D)anxiety attacks

Answer 1

Clinical depression

Question 2

Dworkin notes that the tendency to mistakenly prescribe psychotropic medication in cases of routine unhappiness is due to ______.

A)Over-reliance on primary care physicians
B)Fear of stigma by family and friends
C)Dominance of psychiatric science
D)Mass-market advertising

Answer 2

Over-reliance on primary care physicians

Question 3

What does Dworkin argue is primarily responsible for the increased tendency to medicalize everyday unhappiness?

A)Market forces
B)The DSM
C)Antidepressant medication
D)Biochemical forces
E)Erosion of cultural traditions

Answer 3

The DSM

Question 4

Dworkin argues that psychotropic medication such as Prozac effects brain functioning in a way similar to ______.

A)Alcohol use
B)Antipsychotic drugs
C)A religious experience
D)Cognitive-behavior therapy
E)Caffeine use

Question 5

Dworkin observes that antidepressant medication fails to ______.

A)Increase brain production of serotonin
B)Increase brain production of dopamine
C)Address the 'cosmetic psychopharmacology" conundrum
D)Address external circumstances of unhappiness
E)All of the above

Question 6

According to Dworkin, there is suspicion among doctors that the patients who receive psychotropic medications are ______.

A)The most mental disturbed of all patients
B)The most physically sick patients
C)The ones that complain the loudest
D)The ones that have to most money

Question 7

Why does Dworkin believe it"s dangerous for the medical industry to blur the lines between everyday unhappiness and serious depression? What similarities do you see in medicalizing drug abuse and drug addiction?