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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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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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Medical Debates and Medical Reversal [PDF]
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2015 M edical reversal occurs when an accepted practice—a diagnostic test, medication, or procedure—is overturned. The practice is not replaced by something better, but shown to be inferior to a preexisting, less intensive, or less invasive one. Sometimes the practice that is overturned is shown to be inferior to no intervention. Every physician is aware of
Adam S, Cifu, Vinay K, Prasad
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Politeja, 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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Medical Education and the Medical Supply [PDF]
The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1921 n ...
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MEDICAL TENDENCIES AND MEDICAL IDEALS. [PDF]
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1907 The custom of opening the college session with a general address is an appropriate one, for it affords an opportunity to discuss some topics of interest alike to the medical student and teacher which are not provided for in the curriculum. It is well at times to take a somewhat general survey of our profession, to study its tendencies and get possibly ...
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The impact of medicalization on patient’s human rights
Revista 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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