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Towards Tchernobyl. Is Postmemory a Driving Force for Medicalization or Vice Versa? The article poses a question about relations between practices of medicalization and postmemory ones.
Marta Hoffmann
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Medical Education and the Medical Supply [PDF]
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Medical Debates and Medical Reversal [PDF]
M edical reversal occurs when an accepted practice—a diagnostic test, medication, or procedure—is overturned. The practice is not replaced by something better, but shown to be inferior to a preexisting, less intensive, or less invasive one. Sometimes the practice that is overturned is shown to be inferior to no intervention. Every physician is aware of
Adam S, Cifu, Vinay K, Prasad
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The impact of medicalization on patient’s human rights
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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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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MEDICAL TENDENCIES AND MEDICAL IDEALS. [PDF]
The custom of opening the college session with a general address is an appropriate one, for it affords an opportunity to discuss some topics of interest alike to the medical student and teacher which are not provided for in the curriculum. It is well at times to take a somewhat general survey of our profession, to study its tendencies and get possibly ...
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Orthorexia Nervosa: the Medicalization of Extreme Healthy Eating Practices [PDF]
This chapter employs a critical sociological lens to examine the social construction of a new eating disorder, orthorexia nervosa (ON) -extreme fixation with healthy eating- the politics around its inclusion in the DSM and interests underpinning its ...
Fixsen, Alison, Cheshire, Anna
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Medicalization of global health 1: has the global health agenda become too medicalized? [PDF]
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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Medical Hierarchy and Medical Garb
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 and its Social-Cultural Context
In this study, I discussed the effects of medicalization on our society and culture. How it affects both men and women differently. I also discussed several subtopics under medicalization.
Lesso, Tano
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