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Surveillance and Medicalization of Atypical Motor Development
Scandinavian Journal of Disability ResearchThis article theoretically and practically navigates the controversy of whether delayed motor development should be identified through large-scale screening and addressed through the healthcare system with a diagnosis of Developmental Coordination ...
Motohide Miyahara
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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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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 marketing [PDF]
, 2009 Medicalization is the process by which aspects of the human condition, formerly considered nonmedical, are brought within the medical realm. Medical sociologists have asserted that medicalization is a prevalent contemporary sociocultural phenomenon that ...
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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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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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OxyContin, prescription opioid abuse and economic medicalization [PDF]
, 2012 This paper examines the relevance of OxyContin diversion and abuse to the economic medicalization of substance abuse and addiction. Given that medicalization is the general social process of nonmedical problems being transformed into medical problems ...
Poitras, Geoffrey
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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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