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Female genital mutilation/cutting: Emerging factors sustaining medicalization related changes in selected Kenyan communities

PLoS ONE, 2020
Although female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) has declined, it is pervasive albeit changing form among communities in Kenya. Transformation of FGM/C include medicalization although poorly understood has increased undermining abandonment efforts for ...
Samuel Kimani, C. Kabiru, J. Muteshi, J. Guyo   +3 more
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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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A New Time of Reckoning, a Time for New Reckoning: Views on Health and Society, Tensions between Medicine and the Social Sciences, and the Process of Medicalization

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 Democratic Biopolitics of PrEP [PDF]

, 2019
PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) is a relatively new drug-based HIV prevention technique and an important means to lower the HIV risk of gay men who are especially vulnerable to HIV.
Adam D Galinsky, Alain Giami, Amy L Hequembourg, Andrew D Forsyth, Barry D Adam, Beatriz Preciado, Bettina Schöne-Seifert, Carlos Novas, Catherine Mills, Christoph D Spinner, Christoph Menke, Cindy Patton, Daniel Grace, David M Halperin, David M Halperin, David M Halperin, Dawn K. Smith, Didier Fassin, Elizabeth F Closson, George Ayala, Giorgio Agamben, Giorgio Agamben, Heiner Meulemann, Hyman M Scott, Ingrid Young, Jaakko Ailio, Jaakko Ailio, Jaakko Ailio, Jae M Sevelius, Jared M Baeten, Jean-Michel Molina, Jeffrey Thomas Nealon, Jerome A Singh, Jessica E Haberer, Jessie L Juusola, Judith D Auerbach, Kane Race, Kane Race, Karen Schneider, Karsten Schubert, Kathleen R Page, Kimberly Koester, Latesha Elopre, Lauren V Wood, Mara Tognetti Bordogna, Marianne Pieper, Martin Holt, Martin Saar, Michael Hardt, Michael Hardt, Michel Foucault, Michel Foucault, Michel Foucault, Mingwang Shen, Mitchell Dean, Myron S Cohen, Myron S Cohen, Niels Doorn van, Nikolas Rose, Nikolas Rose, Nikolas Rose, Paul Rabinow, Paul Rabinow, Peter Langford, Robert M Grant, Roberto Esposito, Roberto Esposito, Roberto Esposito, Sarah K Calabrese, Sarit A. Golub, Shane P Collins, Sheena McCormack, Steven Epstein, Steven Epstein, Thea Cacchioni, Thomas Lemke, Thomas Lemke, Tim Dean, Tim Dean, Tim Dean, Tim Dean, Ulrich Bröckling, Ulrich Bröckling, Valentina Cambiano, Vinh-Kim Nguyen   +84 more
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Making psychedelics into medicines: The politics and paradoxes of medicalization

Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 2019
This commentary considers efforts to turn psychedelics into medications that can be administered through healthcare systems as examples of “medicalization.” I draw on ethnographic research both inside and outside of university-based clinical trials from ...
Tehseen Noorani
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An examination of the medicalization trend in female genital cutting in Egypt: How does it relate to a girl's risk of being cut?

Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2020
Female Genital Cutting (FGC) is increasingly being performed by trained health professionals. International, national, and local institutions strongly oppose this medicalization trend, arguing that the involvement of health-care providers in the ...
V. Nina, Biegel Naomi, Gadeyne Sylvie, Van de Velde Sarah   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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Differences in treatment for substance use disorders by insurance status: Self-help only versus outpatient medical treatment [PDF]

, 2020
Background: The role of insurance on substance use disorders (SUD) treatment utilization generally is poorly understood and still less is known on how insurance status relates to the use of evidence-based treatment (i.e., medicalization approach ...
Barnes PhD, Andrew J., Cunningham PhD, Peter, Pham, Huyen, Walker PhD RN, Lauryn   +3 more
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Euthanasia Considered as Device Paradigm [PDF]

, 1997
In this paper I take as my point of departure the way euthanasia has been legally settled in the Netherlands. My concern is not with the question whether euthanasia is morally or religiously acceptable.
Tijmes, Pieter
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