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Debating medicalization of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) : learning from (policy) experiences across countries [PDF]
Reproductive Health, 2019 Background: Although Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) is internationally considered a harmful practice, it is increasingly being medicalized allegedly to reduce its negative health effects, and is thus suggested as a harm reduction strategy in ...
Barrett, Hazel +4 more
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The medicalization of sleeplessness: Results of U.S. office visit outcomes, 2008–2015
SSM: Population Health, 2019 Previous analysis of U.S. physician office visits (1993–2007) indicated that the medicalization of sleeplessness was on the rise and had potentially negative implications for population health. Our study asks if the medicalization of sleeplessness at the
Mairead Eastin Moloney +2 more
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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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The institutional foundations of medicalization : a cross-national analysis of mental health and unemployment [PDF]
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2017 In this study, we question (1) whether the relationship between unemployment and mental healthcare use, controlling for mental health status, varies across European countries and (2) whether these differences are patterned by a combination of ...
Beckfield, Jason +2 more
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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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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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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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