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Medicalization of the educational process: Stating the problem [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия Философия. Психология. Педагогика, 2023 Introduction. The spread of medical theories and practices to various spheres of society is becoming a significant factor in the development of society. In the scientific literature this phenomenon is called medicalization.
Gumarova, Anastasia Nikolaevna
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Health Communication, 2021 This study contributes to understanding medicalization on social media, by using Conrad’s concept of medicalization as a theoretical framework to explore the conversation about Orthorexia Nervosa (ON) on Twitter.
Martina Valente +3 more
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Psychology’s medicalization of male baldness
Journal of Health Psychology, 2021 Male baldness is physically benign though it is increasingly described as a “disease” based on claims that it is profoundly distressing. The medicalization of baldness was assessed using data extracted from a review of 37 male baldness psychosocial ...
G. Jankowski, H. Frith
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The several faces of the medicalization of birth. Italy and its peculiarities
Frontiers in Sociology, 2023 BackgroundMedical-scientific advances in maternal care gradually improved the health of mothers and new-borns. However, this has contributed to increasing levels of medicalization, defined as the overuse of medical interventions even in low-risk ...
Elena Spina
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Medicalization and Fear: A Midwifery View of the Phenomenon and the Backlash
The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography, 2021 The phenomenon of medicalization in the United States is something that midwives must deal with on a daily basis, and it has far-reaching consequences for women’s health. This article examines the culture of birth in the U.S.
Sydney Comstock
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Life medicalization and the recent appearance of “pharmaceuticalization” [PDF]
Farmacia Hospitalaria, 2018 Medicalization is a concern to which we have been paying attention intermittently for the past half century. However, it is increasingly difficult to look away from its multiple and ubiquitous manifestations, and therefore there is an increasingly ...
Ricard Meneu
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Obstetric Violence in Spain (Part II): Interventionism and Medicalization during Birth
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020 Background: obstetric violence can partially be represented by the high number of interventions and medicalization rates during the birthing process. The objective of the present study was to determine the interventionism and medicalization levels during
Desirée Mena-Tudela +5 more
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Effectiveness of a On-Site Medicalization Program for Nursing Homes with COVID-19 Outbreaks
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 2020 Background Nursing homes are highly vulnerable to the occurrence of COVID-19 outbreaks, which result in high lethality rates. Most of them are not prepared to SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Methods A coordinated on-site medicalization program (MP) in response to a
M. Bernabeu-Wittel +12 more
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Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 2020 This study analyzes the meanings attributed to the concept of the medicalization of childbirth from a narrative review of the literature in national journals published between 2000 and 2017.
Lucia Regina de Azevedo Nicida +3 more
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Towards a rhizomatic perspective of the medicalized Body? A Review on Medicalization and Gender
methaodos.revista de ciencias sociales, 2019 Medicalization has been one of the most important topics for feminist agenda and gender studies. During the second wave of feminism, when sexual and reproductive rights were the top concerns for women, is exactly when the studies of medicalization ...
Adriane Roso
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