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Medical Hierarchy and Medical Garb

open access: yesAMA 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
openaire   +2 more sources

Medicalization: Policies and The Role of The Pharmaceutical Industry

open access: yes, 2021
Medicalization is the process of treating previously nonmedical conditions as medical ones. With medicalization, more people who are physically or mentally deviant outliers from the average population are diagnosed with diseases possibly leading to more ...
Al Bakri, Deema
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Bridging the Loneliness Gap: Depression, Connectivity, and Isolation in Pediatric Oncology Patients and Their Peers

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Loneliness is associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes and remains understudied in children and adolescents undergoing cancer therapy. Pediatric oncology patients may be at increased risk due to medical isolation and disruption of social networks.
Charlotte N. Stahlfeld   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medicalization of Social Problems

open access: yes, 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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Early Body Mass Index z‐Score Change and Resolution of Severe Malnutrition in Children With Sickle Cell Anemia in a Low‐Income Setting: A Prospective Single‐Arm Extension Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) in low‐income settings are at risk of severe malnutrition, but optimal nutritional management has not been established. We evaluated an intensified ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) regimen in children with persistent severe malnutrition after initial treatment and assessed whether early ...
Safiya Gambo   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medicalization of global health 2: the medicalization of global mental health [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Central Nervous System Tumors Among Infants in Canada: A Report From CYP‐C

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) tumors in infants are rare, pose unique clinical challenges, and lack large‐scale evidence‐based data to guide management. This study seeks to describe CNS tumors in Canadian infants and to compare their outcomes with those of older children.
Samuel Sassine   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Philosophical Debate and Convergence of Biopower Theory and Medicalization Theory

open access: yesYixue yu zhexue
Modern medical technology and its relationship with ordinary social individuals are primarily analyzed through theoretical frameworks including biopower theory, medical technology democracy theory, and medicalization theory.
Dongwei YUAN, Yuena CUI
doaj   +1 more source

Revisiting Medicalization: A Critique of the Assumptions of What Counts As Medical Knowledge

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Psychological Suffering, Medicalization and Women: Contributions in the Field of Public Health

open access: yesEstudos 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
doaj   +1 more source

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