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Medicalization of Sexuality and Trans Situations: Evolutions and Transformations
Societies, 2022 This article explores the evolution of the definition and the process of medicalization of sexuality during the second half of the 20th century. After a review and discussion of the notion of medicalization, the application of this notion to a few ...
Alain Giami
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Medicalization of the educational process: Stating the problem [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия Философия. Психология. Педагогика, 2023 Introduction. The spread of medical theories and practices to various spheres of society is becoming a significant factor in the development of society. In the scientific literature this phenomenon is called medicalization.
Gumarova, Anastasia Nikolaevna
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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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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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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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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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‘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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