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Societies, 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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PLoS ONE, 2020 Although female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) has declined, it is pervasive albeit changing form among communities in Kenya. Transformation of FGM/C include medicalization although poorly understood has increased undermining abandonment efforts for ...
Samuel Kimani +3 more
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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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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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Medikalisasi dan Sosial Kontrol: Kebijakan terhadap Difabel di Hindia-Belanda Abad XVII-XIX
INKLUSI 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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Making psychedelics into medicines: The politics and paradoxes of medicalization
Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 2019 This commentary considers efforts to turn psychedelics into medications that can be administered through healthcare systems as examples of “medicalization.” I draw on ethnographic research both inside and outside of university-based clinical trials from ...
Tehseen Noorani
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Medicalization of global health 1: has the global health agenda become too medicalized? [PDF]
Global 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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Degrees of Medicalization: The Case of Infertility Health-Seeking
The Sociological Quarterly, 2020 We examine responses to infertility among a sample of 2,361 women with infertility from the National Survey of Fertility Barriers. Latent class analysis uncovered seven latent classes of behavioral response which can be arranged in a rough continuum from
A. Greil +4 more
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Coping with ‘Medicalizing Knowledge’ and School Practices in Florianópolis
Revista 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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The new holism: P4 systems medicine and the medicalization of health and life itself
Medicine, Health care and Philosophy, 2016 The emerging concept of systems medicine (or ‘P4 medicine’—predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory) is at the vanguard of the post-genomic movement towards ‘precision medicine’.
Henrik Vogt, B. Hofmann, L. Getz
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