Neo-Medicalization

Frontiers | Revisiting Medicalization: A Critique of the …

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2017.00014/full

The concept of medicalization is hugely influential, and empirical studies have demonstrated that medicalization has largely been achieved not only through the work of medical professionals or scientists but also increasingly through the efforts of patients or citizens seeking to legitimize their distress through defini… See more

Medicalization - Wikipedia

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Medicalization – Subcultures and Sociology

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Since the APA, and consequently society, medicalizes deviance displayed by subcultural groups (such as goths, gamers, or bodybuilders) in terms of mental illness, this …

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

Objectives of this primer from NYU Langone’s High School Bioethics Project are to understand the basics of the pharmaceutical and biotechnological development process, …

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 …

Medicalizing - New Discourses

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“Medicalization,” in Theory, usually refers to using medical discourses to describe factors as knowledge that it believes should be thought of as matters of identity. It …

(PDF) "It's' your body but...": Young women's narratives …

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Whereas medicalization generally refers to processes that transform natural processes (e.g., pregnancy, menopause) or social problems (e.g., alcoholism, gambling) into …

The Effects of Neoliberal Practices on …

https://pha.berkeley.edu/2018/12/06/the-effects-of-neoliberal-practices-on-public-health/

Neoliberalism, ironically, is a system of economic practices championed mostly by political conservatives. The system places an emphasis on …

Neo Medicalization Definition | Day of Difference

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Neofunctionalization, one of the possible outcomes of functional divergence, occurs when one gene copy, or paralog, takes on a totally new function after a gene …

Neo Medicalization | Day of Difference

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According to Peter Conrad, “medicalization describes a process by which human problems become defined and treated as medical problems, usually in terms of …