The society of anxiety

Abstract

Starting from the analysis of the meaning of health and illness, the work
fi nds the social role of medicine as a transposition of the medicalization from
clinical to the the social realm of existence. Discovering the medicalization
of social life as one of the indicators of postmodern rationality entropy, the
analysis focuses on the diff usion and fl uid fear as a basic epochal experience of
human existence in contemporary constellation world whose social shaping is
named as the anxiety society.