Özet:

Medication means the use of medical terms to define a non-medical problem, the need for a medical intervention in order to present a problem from a medical framework or to “treat” it. As this problem can come to us as a problem that concerns the medical profession, it can also be a situation that does not concern the medical profession. The aim of the study in this direction is to try to reveal the medication of aging, which is often used in health news and the low level of health literature individuals are likely to be misleading and negatively affect their health, by making a summer scan and by presenting the statements in the news. In accordance with this objective in the Sabah, New Dawn, Hürriyet and Nationality newspapers 01.01.2017 - 31.12. Published between the dates of 2017, the health-containing texts that passed the term aging have been analyzed from the theoretical and methodological window offered by the critical speech analysis. In the study, the theoretical sense of consumption culture theory, in addition to the change of understanding of health and the formation of new understanding of health, was also evaluated. The study found that in the internet newspapers, the ageing of health and the natural process of life was medically addressed and the solution was positioned at the individual level, while on the other hand, the readers were encouraged to consume.

Özet:

Medicalization refers to using medical terms to describe a non-medical problem, to present a problem from the medical framework or the necessity for a medical intervention in order to “treat” it. This problem may be a problem concerning the medical profession, or it may be a condition that does not concern the medical profession. In this direction, the aim of the study is to try to reveal the medicalization of aging that is frequently used in health news and that has the possibility to misguide the individuals whose health-literacy level is low and to affect the health negatively by conducting review of literature and presenting it with the expressions included in the news. For this purpose, the health-containing texts that had the term of aging and that were published in Sabah, Yeni Şafak, Hürriyet and Milliyet newspapers between 01.01.2017 and 31.12.2017 were analyzed from the theoretical and methodological window presented by critical discourse analysis from qualitative research designs. In the study, besides the theory of consumption culture in the theoretical sense, the change in the understanding of health and the formation of new health understanding were also evaluated. As a result of the research;  it was determined that the medicalization of aging with health discourse and the aging in the natural process of life were taken from the medical point of view and the solution was placed on the individual level, and on the other hand it encouraged readers to consume

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