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Estimating the costs of medicalization [PDF]

Social Science and Medicine, 2010
Medicalization is the process by which non-medical problems become defined and treated as medical problems, usually as illnesses or disorders. There has been growing concern with the possibility that medicalization is driving increased health care costs.
Ateev Mehrotra, Peter Conrad
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Stratified medicalization of schooling difficulties [PDF]

Social Science and Medicine, 2022
Medicalization is a central topic of concern in the sociology of disability and of health and illness. In this paper, I examine how medicalization is inequitably applied and circulates in the context of schools, specifically in serving students with ...
Rachel Fish
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The Other Side of Medicalization: Self-Medicalization and Self-Medication [PDF]

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 2013
International audienceThe concept of medicalization has given rise to considerable discussion in the social sciences, focusing especially on the extension of medicine's jurisdiction and its hold over our bodies through the reduction of social phenomena ...
Sylvie Fainzang
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Medical leadership and the medical student.

British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2011
As leadership and management are increasingly seen as a vital part of the doctor's daily repertoire, medical schools are starting to implement leadership development programmes as a routine part of the curriculum with opportunities for some students to take extended study in leadership.
Helen, O'Sullivan, Judy, McKimm
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Rethinking the medical in the medical humanities

Medical Humanities, 2016
To clinicians there are a number of striking features of the ever-evolving field of the medical humanities. The first is a perception of a predominantly unidirectional relationship between medicine and the humanities, generally in terms of what the arts and humanities have to offer medicine.
Desmond, O'Neill, Elinor, Jenkins, Rebecca, Mawhinney, Ellen, Cosgrave, Sarah, O'Mahony, Clare, Guest, Hilary, Moss   +6 more
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THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND MEDICAL PREPAREDNESS

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1941
The part of the medical profession in the National Defense Program is an important one. Without health, participants in industrial production and members of the armed forces become liabilities rather than assets. The American workman loses on an average eight work days a year from illness, the aggregate number of such days so lost reaching the ...
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Medical Discovery and Medical Education

New England Journal of Medicine, 1968
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, whose tangled life personified so many of his aphorisms, observed that "it is easier to know man in general than it is to know one man in particular." Medicine seems t...
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