Medicalised Bodies

How Do Medicalization and Rescue Fantasy Prevent …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-do-medicalization-and-rescue-fantasy-prevent-healthy-dying/2018-08

Dying has been removed from the home and community and transplanted in the hospital or institution in an attempt to rescue dying patients from death. Medicalization can violate the bodies of dying patients with tubes, restraints, mechanical hums, and beeps—all efforts to control what remains of life … See more

The Medicalization of Women | Women's Health Advocate

https://www.womenshealthadvocate.org/articles/the-medicalization-of-women/

Control over women, and especially our bodies, is one of the foundations of the patriarchal system. Our fertility, menstruation, pregnancy, births, menopause, and the …

Medicalization - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicalization

Medicalizing Obesity: Individual, Economic, and Medical …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/medicalizing-obesity-individual-economic-and-medical-consequences/2011-12

Defining Medicalization As Sadler and colleagues [1] define it, “‘medicalization’ describes a process by which human problems become …