Medicalization And Dependence On The Health System

The Medicalization of Health and Shared Responsibility

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20502877.2016.1151253

In the context of the broad WHO definition of health 4 (World Health Organization [WHO] 2006), medicalization comes to fulfil the …

Medicalization: Scientific Progress or Disease Mongering?

https://med.nyu.edu/departments-institutes/population-health/divisions-sections-centers/medical-ethics/education/high-school-bioethics-project/learning-scenarios/medicalization-ethics

Medicalization of global health 1: has the global health …

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3402/gha.v7.23998

Medicalization can occur at multiple levels ( 12) – for example, at the level of interaction where individual patients or doctors seek a medical label or apply a medical solution to a …

Medicalization - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/medicalization

The focus on professions has lost some of its traction, and physicians today appear to be only one set of actors in struggles for control over bodies, health, and …

13.1 Sociological Perspectives on Health and Health Care

https://open.lib.umn.edu/socialproblems/chapter/13-1-sociological-perspectives-on-health-and-health-care/

Although the three dimensions of health just listed often affect each other, it is possible for someone to be in good physical health and poor mental health, or vice versa. Medicine refers to the social institution that seeks …

Medicalizing Obesity: Individual, Economic, and Medical …

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

Access to adequate medical treatment for patients must acknowledge that this biological illness is widespread, that it is important that it be treated effectively, that appropriate third-party payment for physician …

How to distinguish medicalization from over-medicalization?

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Is medicalization always harmful? When does medicine overstep its proper boundaries? The aim of this article is to outline the pragmatic criteria for distinguishing between …

The Pharmaceutical Industry's Role in Defining Illness

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/pharmaceutical-industrys-role-defining-illness/2011-12

However, defining illness can be the first step toward reducing human suffering. Thus, medicalization can alternatively be defined as “a process by which human problems come to be defined and treated as medical …

Medicalizing Addiction | Freedom Magazine

https://www.freedommag.org/magazine/201704-addiction/medicalizing-addiction.html

Another major step toward the growing medicalization of addiction occurred in 2013, when the American Psychiatric Association issued its fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders …

Medicalizing the war on drugs - PubMed

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In the medicalization of the War on Drugs, the nation's medical colleges, schools of public health, teaching hospitals, and nursing schools all have roles to play. (ABSTRACT …