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Medicalization and Fear: A Midwifery View of the Phenomenon and the Backlash

open access: yesThe 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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Medical Robotics [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of Biomedical Engineering, 2018
Medical robotics encompasses surgical, therapeutic and rehabilitative devices that are changing medicine and healthcare. Although the field of medical robotics predates Intuitive’s da Vinci by more than a decade, it was the clinical and commercial achievements of that system that brought medical robotics to widespread patient and public attention.
Elson, DS   +4 more
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Towards a rhizomatic perspective of the medicalized Body? A Review on Medicalization and Gender

open access: yesmethaodos.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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W stronę Czarnobyla

open access: yesPoliteja, 2017
Towards Tchernobyl. Is Postmemory a Driving Force for Medicalization or Vice Versa? The article poses a question about relations between practices of medicalization and postmemory ones.
Marta Hoffmann
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The impact of medicalization on patient’s human rights

open access: yesRevista Iberoamericana de Bioética, 2018
The process of medicalization has an unquestionable impact on everyday life, particularly on the populations of the countries that are large consumer markets of medicines and health resources. The present study consists of theoretical research which aims
Aline Albuquerque Albuquerque
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A New Time of Reckoning, a Time for New Reckoning: Views on Health and Society, Tensions between Medicine and the Social Sciences, and the Process of Medicalization

open access: yesSocieties, 2022
This article seeks to capture variations and tensions in the relationships between the health–illness–medicine complex and society. It presents several theoretical reconstructions, established theses and arguments are reassessed and criticized, known ...
Diogo Silva da Cunha, Hélder Raposo
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Medikalisasi dan Sosial Kontrol: Kebijakan terhadap Difabel di Hindia-Belanda Abad XVII-XIX

open access: yesINKLUSI Journal of Disability Studies, 2021
This study aims to explore the policies of the Dutch colonial government towards people with disabilities. Nowadays, the practice of medicalization of disability remains being carried out, and it causes many losses.
Rifa'i Shodiq Fathoni
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Medicalization of global health 1: has the global health agenda become too medicalized? [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2014
Medicalization analyses have roots in sociology and have critical usefulness for understanding contemporary health issues including the ‘post-2015 global health agenda’.
Jocalyn Clark
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Coping with ‘Medicalizing Knowledge’ and School Practices in Florianópolis

open access: yesRevista Katálysis, 2019
This article discusses the presence of the ‘medicalizing knowledge’ in public schools of Florianópolis (SC). The study questions the phenomenon of medicalization in formal education, reflecting on its consequences for the student’s school performance and
Lara Beatriz Fuck, Fabio Machado Pinto
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Medicalization of global health 2: the medicalization of global mental health [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2014
Once an orphan field, ‘global mental health’ now has wide acknowledgement and prominence on the global health agenda. Increased recognition draws needed attention to individual suffering and the population impacts, but medicalizing global mental health ...
Jocalyn Clark
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