Screening and Brief Intervention for Alcohol Misuse in Older Adults: Training Outcomes Among Physicians and Other Healthcare Practitioners in Community-Based Settings [PDF]
, 2015 Screening and brief intervention (SBI) is increasingly available to older adults who engage in at-risk drinking. This study examined the extent to which SBI training influenced the willingness of healthcare providers in a community-based hospital and ...
Coogle, Constance L, Owens, Myra G
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The new holism: P4 systems medicine and the medicalization of health and life itself
Medicine, Health care and Philosophy, 2016 The emerging concept of systems medicine (or ‘P4 medicine’—predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory) is at the vanguard of the post-genomic movement towards ‘precision medicine’.
Henrik Vogt, B. Hofmann, L. Getz
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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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Contested psychiatric ontology and feminist critique : 'female sexual dysfunction' and the diagnostic and statistical manual [PDF]
, 2012 In this article I discuss the emergence of Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD) within American psychiatry and beyond in the postwar period, setting out what I believe to be important and suggestive questions neglected in existing scholarship.
Angel, Katherine
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The science of clinical practice: disease diagnosis or patient prognosis? Evidence about "what is likely to happen" should shape clinical practice. [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Diagnosis is the traditional basis for decision-making in clinical practice. Evidence is often lacking about future benefits and harms of these decisions for patients diagnosed with and without disease.
A Chauffard +57 more
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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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Obstetric violence: a Latin American legal response to mistreatment during childbirth [PDF]
, 2018 Over the last several years, a new legal construct has emerged in Latin America that encompasses elements of quality of obstetric care and mistreatment of women during childbirth - both issues of global maternal health import. Termed "obstetric violence,"
Belizan, Jose +5 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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Medical Debates and Medical Reversal [PDF]
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2015 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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How to distinguish medicalization from over-medicalization?
Medicine, Health care and Philosophy, 2018 Is medicalization always harmful? When does medicine overstep its proper boundaries? The aim of this article is to outline the pragmatic criteria for distinguishing between medicalization and over-medicalization.
E. Kaczmarek
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