Over Medicalisation

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 medicine cannot be solved by creating an optimum model of health; (iii) proposes four …

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

How to distinguish medicalization from over-medicalization?

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11019-018-9850-1

According to Erik Parens, medicalization is wrong “when the institution of medicine oversteps its proper limits” (Parens 2013).In order to discuss over …

The many dangers of over-medicalising mental health

https://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j4305/rr-7

The dangers of over-medicalising mental health are more subtle, but arguably they are as important. These dangers may not operate so dramatically on the …

Medicalising everyday life doesn’t help anyone’s …

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/24/medicalising-mental-health-ilnness-nhs

Adrian Massey. Not all suffering is mental illness. Pretending it is raises false hopes and puts pressure on an already strained NHS. …

The over-medicalisation of illness in the NHS is down …

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/15/over-medicalisation-nhs-patients-acting-like-customers

Market attitudes are what sell us things we don’t really need, and the award-winning New Yorker writer, Atul Gawande, confirms that the problem of over-medicalisation is bigger in the private ...

Diagnosis: are we medicalising human experience?

https://bhma.org/diagnosis-are-we-medicalising-human-experience/

The medicalisation of mental illness has resulted in ambiguous classification and over-prescription. In the DSM-III, diagnosis of major depressive disorder (MDD) is characterised by nine symptoms: ‘mood, …

Over-Medicalization and Medicalization of Normality

https://www.floridapersonaltraining.com/over-medicalization-and-medicalization-of-normality/

Over-medicalization, like the name suggests, refers to excessive use of medical diagnostics and procedures for conditions and complaints that don’t warrant such cost- and time- intensive practices. …

Over-medicalization of Maternal Health in America

https://blog.everymothercounts.org/over-medicalization-of-maternal-health-in-america-40e20e6b4171

Currently, about 800 women die every year in the U.S. from pregnancy and childbirth-related complications. That number is rising and closely connected with the …

Over-diagnosed and Over-treated: The medicalization of …

https://anh-usa.org/over-diagnosed-and-over-treated-the-medicalization-of-childhood/

John Abramson, MD, award-winning Harvard family practitioner, author of Overdosed America (log onto www.overdosedamerica.com to read further) has sagely …