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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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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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The medicalization of chronic pain
Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund, 2010 This paper presents an initial analysis of the medicalization of chronic pain, focusing on the definitions and treatment of chronic pain in recent decades. We identify several factors that contributed to this medicalization including the emergence of the
Peter Conrad, Vanessa Lopes Muñoz
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The shifting engines of medicalization
, 2005 Social scientists and other analysts have written about medicalization since at least the 1970s. Most of these studies depict the medical profession, interprofessional or organizational contests, or social movements and interest groups as the prime ...
Conrad, P.
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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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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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Medical emergencies in medical imaging [PDF]
BMJ Quality & Safety, 2012 Sending inpatients to the medical imaging department is sometimes tantamount to discharging them from hospital for hours at a time. Consider, for example, a patient with an unexplained acute abdomen where an urgent CT scan is indicated. Patient transport, logistical delays and the procedure itself may lead to gaps in monitoring vital signs, providing ...
John A, Staples, Donald A, Redelmeier
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The Engineering of Health: A Model for Critiquing and Assessing Medicalization
International Journal of Body, Mind and CultureMedicalization refers to the process by which human conditions are transformed into medical problems. While conceptualized initially as a critical tool in sociology, medicalization has since evolved, leading to its application beyond disease to ...
َAlireza Monajemi
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Człowiek i Społeczeństwo, 2015 The article describes the process of the medicalization of cyberspace. The first part of the article depicts the process of medicalization itself and within its frames cybermedicalization is presented. The second part characterizes the medicalization of
Magdalena W Wieczorkowska
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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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