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Medicalization and its Social Context [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The thesis establishes a basic concept of medicalization , with a special focus on psychological and behavioural disorders. Back then, it was advocated through the medical profession, social movements and interest groups.
Suresh, Parvathy
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Medikalisasi dan Sosial Kontrol: Kebijakan terhadap Difabel di Hindia-Belanda Abad XVII-XIX

open access: yesINKLUSI 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 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
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The medicalization of cannabis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Cannabis has been considered as both an illicit drug and a medicine throughout its history. Introduced to the UK as a medicine in the nineteenth century, its medical utility was limited and it was not until tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), one of the ...
Crowther, SM, Reynolds, LA, Tansey, EM
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Psychiatry and politics in Pelotas, Brazil: the equivocal quality of conduct disorder and related diagnoses. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The world-wide emergence of categories for diagnosing mental health problems in children and youth such as conduct disorder is often attributed to the globalization of a highly biomedical form of psychiatry.
Béhague, Dominique P.   +2 more
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Coping with ‘Medicalizing Knowledge’ and School Practices in Florianópolis

open access: yesRevista 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
doaj   +1 more source

Medicalization of global health 1: has the global health agenda become too medicalized? [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal 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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Medicalization and its clinical discontents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
International audienceIn this medical anthropology paper, I offer to the discussion a counter-intuitive hypothesis: "medicalization" is a clinical judgment inherited by the functionalist sociology of deviance. In that respect, society is an organism that
Lézé, Samuel, Samuel Lézé
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Medicalization of Eating and Feeding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
A variety of developments over the past century have produced the conditions in which eating and feeding are transformed from practices embedded in social or cultural relations into explicit medical practices.
Christopher Mayes, Mayes, C
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Zdrowie i choroba w Sieci – o przejawach i konsekwencjach popularyzacji wiedzy medycznej w Internecie

open access: yesCzłowiek 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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