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Medicalization: Scientific Progress or Disease Mongering?

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Medicalization refers to the process in which conditions and behaviors are labeled and treated as medical issues. Critics have labeled this over-medicalization or disease mongering, since by labeling normal health variants as pathological states, medical industries have made enormous profits. Some of this has been … See more

Medicalization - Wikipedia

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Medicalization - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

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Medicalizationis the process by which nonmedical problems become defined and treated as medical problems often requiring medical treatment. The term …

The pros and cons of medicalisation | The BMJ

https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/28/pros-and-cons-medicalisation

medicalisation can perpetuate disability and exclusion. But used constructively and appropriately it is the first step towards recovery. Professor Simon …

Healthism and the medicalization of everyday life - PubMed

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Healthism represents a particular way of viewing the health problem, and is characteristic of the new health consciousness and movements. It can best be understood as a form of …

Medicalization – Subcultures and Sociology - Grinnell …

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Researchers Conrad and Schneider first introduced the term “medicalization” in their studies of deviance during the 1980s. In a general sense, medicalization refers to how human conditions and behaviors are …

Diagnosis: are we medicalising human experience?

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Written by Vinay Mandagere, Medical Student at the University of Bristol. Medicalisation is described as the process of taking non-medical problems and converting them into illnesses and disorders (Conrad and Schneider …

Medicalisation in the UK: changing dynamics, but still …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0141076815600908

Medicalisation, the process by which moral, social or legal problems become medical issues, has been studied in social science for nearly half a century. 2,3 There are …

7 Examples of Medicalization - Simplicable

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Medicalization is the process by which human conditions come to be viewed as medical problems. The following are theoretical examples. Disease Recognition …

How to distinguish medicalization from over-medicalization?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29951940/

The article: (i) identifies various consequences of both well-founded medicalization and over-medicalization; (ii) demonstrates that the issue of defining appropriate limits of …