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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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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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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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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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Medical Hierarchy and Medical Garb
AMA Journal of Ethics, 2013 If medical garb reinforces a hierarchical barrier to cooperation in the clinic, it is a failure of interprofessional training in collaborative practice, not an indictment of the utility of role differentiation.
Daniella M, Schocken +3 more
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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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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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Medicalization of global health 2: the medicalization of global mental health [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2014 Once an orphan field, ‘global mental health’ now has wide acknowledgement and prominence on the global health agenda. Increased recognition draws needed attention to individual suffering and the population impacts, but medicalizing global mental health ...
Jocalyn Clark
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Psychological Suffering, Medicalization and Women: Contributions in the Field of Public Health
Estudos e Pesquisas em Psicologia, 2021 In recent years we have seen a growing psychological suffering in women attended in primary health care in developing countries. This paper aims to analyze psychological suffering in a small city in northeastern Brazil and its relationship with ...
Luciana Fernandes de Medeiros +4 more
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Revisiting Medicalization: A Critique of the Assumptions of What Counts As Medical Knowledge
Frontiers in Sociology, 2017 The concept of medicalization is hugely influential, and empirical studies have demonstrated that medicalization has largely been achieved not only through the work of medical professionals or scientists but also increasingly through the efforts of ...
Tiago Correia
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