Over-Medicalization

How to distinguish medicalization from over-medicalization?

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

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 medicalization and over-medicalization. The consequences of considering a …

How to distinguish medicalization from over-medicalization?

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

Over-medicalization: a pragmatic approach It is likely that establishing simple and clear-cut criteria for drawing appropriate boundaries of medicine is not …

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

Are We Over-Medicalizing Human Emotion? - The Mighty

https://themighty.com/topic/major-depressive-disorder/modern-psychiatry-over-medicalization-mental-illnesses/

Diagnosis based on symptoms — without considering context — can be highly problematic. A catalyst of medicalization is the bible of psychiatry: The DSM. The …

[Overmedicalization: When too much medicine harms]

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26586148/

Overmedicalization refers to non-validated medical practices, with no clear benefits, potentially harmful and therefore unnecessarily costly. Awareness is growing with …

Overmedication - Wikipedia

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

Overmedication is an overutilization of medication wherein a patient takes voluntarily, or is prescribed, unnecessary or excessive medications. While not strictly a medical condition, …

Overprescribing Drugs to Treat Mental Health Problems

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-we-worry/201401/overprescribing-drugs-treat-mental-health-problems

Treating some common mental health problems with drugs from the outset may effectively “medicalize” them, turning what might have been short-term, acute …

Over-Medicalization and Medicalization of …

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 …

The over-medicalisation of illness in the …

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

The over-medicalisation of illness in the NHS is down to patients acting like customers Deborah Orr As my mother’s case showed, patients don’t want to be told that …

The Over-Medicalization of Aging | As Our Parents Age So Do We

https://asourparentsage.net/2012/02/22/the-over-medicalization-of-aging/

The medicalization of our aging — the tendency of the medical community to always to have a procedure or surgery that purports to solve a problem — potentially …