Pharmaceutical industry and psychiatry within the framework of Economic Sociology. A research agenda

• Autor(a) principal: Mazon, Marcia da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Política & Sociedade (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/politica/article/view/2175-7984.2019v18n43p136

In this article we were interested in analyzing the relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and psychiatry and new contours of this relationship from the 1990s in Brazil. We argue, from the perspective of Economic Sociology which understands markets as social constructions, that this process gains a particular design in the country. The purpose of the article is to open a research agenda in the health and pharmaceutical industry from this framework. The methodology used was literature review and document analysis. When we talk about Brazilian psychiatry, in the 1940s this sector struggled for professional recognition with the discourse of disease prevention and the psychiatric hospital sought its space. At the heart of recent transformations of psychiatry reform and medicalization processes – in particular from the publication of the DSM Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in its fifth version – we argue that psychiatry reinvents itself as a specialty and mobilizes the discourse of prevention. However, it is now the medicalized prevention of childhood; the hospital loses space for the pharmaceutical industry.