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Medicalization of Sexuality and Trans Situations: Evolutions and Transformations
Societies, 2022 This article explores the evolution of the definition and the process of medicalization of sexuality during the second half of the 20th century. After a review and discussion of the notion of medicalization, the application of this notion to a few ...
Alain Giami
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European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2021 In this paper, my goal is to use an epistemic injustice framework to extend an existing normative analysis of over-medicalization to psychiatry and thus draw attention to overlooked injustices.
Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien
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Medicalization Defined in Empirical Contexts – A Scoping Review [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2020 Background Medicalization has been a topic of discussion and research for over four decades. It is a known concept to researchers from a broad range of disciplines.
Wieteke van Dijk +4 more
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Medicalization of female life stages: a qualitative research [PDF]
BMC Health Services ResearchBackground Medicalization involves treating a normal biological process or behavior as a medical issue. Technological developments and media influence have accelerated the spread of medical discourse. All stages of a woman's life, from adolescence to old
Gamze Kırlı, Şerife Didem Kaya
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Revisiting Medicalization: A Critique of the Assumptions of What Counts As Medical Knowledge
Frontiers in Sociology, 2017 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 ...
Tiago Correia
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“Clinician Knows Best”? Injustices in the Medicalization of Mental Illness
Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 2019 This paper uses a non-ideal theory approach advocated for by Alison Jaggar to show that practices involved with the medicalization of serious mental disorders can subject people who have these disorders to a cycle of vulnerability that keeps them trapped
Abigail Gosselin
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Assessment of Medicalization of Pregnancy and Childbirth in Low-risk Pregnancies: A Cross-sectional Study [PDF]
International Journal of Community Based Nursing and Midwifery, 2022 Background: Medicalization may lead to over-testing during pregnancy and increased cesarean section (CS). This study investigated the medicalization of low-risk pregnancies and childbirths in Rasht, Iran.
Shadi Sabetghadam +4 more
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Countervailing medicalization: A relational approach to the medicalization of psychosis
SSM: Qualitative Research in Health, 2022 This paper provides a relational analysis of the medicalization of prodromal psychosis, a period of low-level symptoms that might or might not escalate into an official psychotic disorder (e.g., schizophrenia).
Michael Halpin
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The Perils of Medicalization for Population Health and Health Equity
Milbank Quarterly, 2023 Policy Points Medicalization is a historical process by which personal, behavioral, and social issues are increasingly viewed through a biomedical lens and “diagnosed and treated” as individual pathologies and problems by medical authorities ...
Paula M. Lantz +2 more
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British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2021 The pharmaceutical industry and drugs advertisements are sometimes accused of “creating diseases”. This article assesses and describes the role of that industry in fostering medicalization.
E. Kaczmarek
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