In the world we live in today, many people would find it difficult to imagine living in a world where medicines and cures are not readily available. The replacement of religious explanations with medical-scientific ones has become an instrument of social control. If a person is suffering, he can easily make an appointment with a doctor and receive some kind of medical diagnosis. However, there are some cases where a problem has not been medicalized or recognized as a medical problem and the problem will be completely ignored. The film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest delves into the idea of ​​medicalisation and how it can be used for good, or evil, in terms of the 'sick role'. Medicalization in the “deviant” world can help people define whether their behavior is an illness; however, it can also cause great problems by keeping the person under “control” with treatments or by labeling the person within a society as “deviant”. Medicalization is a process in which certain medical problems and disorders are defined and classified as a medical disease. In terms of deviance, medicalization can concern an illness that deviates from the assumed social health status, something that is not classified as normal. However, to define behavior as “abnormal” as medical, some form of treatment must exist, and a licensed professional should provide such treatment (Conrad, 1992, p. 210). There is also what Chalfant and Noble call “the medicalization of deviance,” which involves a shift from a legal to a medical perspective (1979, p.792). These so-called “deviant” problems can be associated with alcoholism and drug abuse. On the other hand I... half of the document...... illnesses have become medicalized where previous “illnesses” are seen as normal occurrences, becoming de-medicalized in the process (i.e. homosexuality). Society continues to control the medical realm as beliefs and ideas are revamped to fit modern-day culture. Works Cited Chalfant, H. Paul, & Noble, Dorinda N. (1979). The transition towards medicalized views, alcoholism and social workers. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 792-804.Conrad, Peter. (1992). Medicalization and social control. Annual review of sociology, 18,209-232. Conrad, Peter. (2005). The changing drivers of medicalization. Journal of Health and SocialBehavior, 46(3), 2-14.Goldstein, Joseph and Katz, Jay. (1963). Abolish the “insanity defense”: why not?. The YaleLaw Journal, 72, 853-876.Milos, Forman (Editor). (1975). One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [DVD].