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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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‘Golden age’ versus ‘bad old days’: A discursive examination of advice-giving in antenatal classes [PDF]
, 2010 Childbirth is seen as a medical event, and pregnancy, a time when parents-to-be are in need of advice. This article provides a discursive analysis of how such advice is given in antenatal classes. Using audio-recorded data from National Childbirth Trust (
Mary Horton-Salway +3 more
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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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Orthorexia Nervosa: the Medicalization of Extreme Healthy Eating Practices [PDF]
, 2022 This chapter employs a critical sociological lens to examine the social construction of a new eating disorder, orthorexia nervosa (ON) -extreme fixation with healthy eating- the politics around its inclusion in the DSM and interests underpinning its ...
Fixsen, Alison, Cheshire, Anna
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OxyContin, prescription opioid abuse and economic medicalization [PDF]
, 2012 International audienceThis paper examines the relevance of OxyContin diversion and abuse to the economic medicalization of substance abuse and addiction.
Poitras, Geoffrey
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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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Medicalization of Social Problems [PDF]
, 2015 Medicalization, a key concept in sociology, refers to the process by which personal and social phenomena are increasingly understood in medical terms. Constructionist approaches to social problems have made considerable use of the medicalization thesis ...
Ashley Frawley
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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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