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Psychiatrization in mental health care: The emergency department
Frontiers in Sociology, 2022 BackgroundIn the light of high incidences of diagnosed mental disorders and the growing utilization of mental healthcare services, a progressing psychiatrization of society has been hypothesized as the underlying dynamic of these developments.
Timo Beeker
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Global Efforts to Reduce Paediatric Cancer Care Disparities in Radiotherapy: A Decade Change
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background We present an update on the status, needs and challenges faced by paediatric imaging and radiotherapy (RT) programmes globally after a previous survey conducted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 10 years prior. Methods We developed and distributed a 121‐question survey to radiation oncologists, medical physicists and ...
Raymond B. Mailhot Vega +10 more
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Psychology’s medicalization of male baldness [PDF]
, 2021 Male baldness is physically benign though it is increasingly described as a “disease” based on claims that it is profoundly distressing. The medicalization of baldness was assessed using data extracted from a review of 37 male baldness psychosocial ...
Jankowski, GS +3 more
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Medicalization, markets and consumers.
, 2004 This paper examines the impact of changes in the medical marketplace on medicalization in U.S. society. Using four cases (Viagra, Paxil, human growth hormone and in vitro fertilization), we focus on two aspects of the changing medical marketplace: the ...
Conrad, P., Leiter, V.
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Competing Models of Disability: Medicalization’s Ambivalent Effects on the Paralympic Movement
SociusDisability is predominantly understood as a medical problem. Since the 1980s, disability scholars have critiqued the medicalization of disability to illuminate disability’s social and political dimensions.
Evan T. Baughman
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Shwachman–Diamond syndrome (SDS) is a rare autosomal recessive ribosomopathy characterized by bone marrow failure and multisystem involvement, with emerging evidence of associated neurocognitive impairment. Methods We conducted a retrospective study of 240 individuals with biallelic Shwachman–Bodian–Diamond syndrome (SBDS) mutations
Jane Koo +11 more
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Report: Forme di vita emergenti tra potenziamento e medicalizzazione (Università di Salerno, 29 marzo 2017) [PDF]
S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2017 Emergent Life Forms between Enhancement and Medicalization The connection between biotechnologies and subjectivation processes has become a central topic in biopolitical and bioethical debates. The March 29, 2017, at the University of Salerno, there was
MEOLA, LORELLA
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We assessed the effect of iron overload (IO) on mortality and complications following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in patients with Diamond–Blackfan anemia syndrome (DBAS) in a systematic review of individual participant data and cohort data from observational studies.
Geoffrey Z. L. Kuppens +6 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose Next‐generation sequencing (NGS) has emerged as a promising approach to improve diagnostic accuracy, but its feasibility in low‐ and middle‐income countries remains unknown. This study characterized the diagnostic landscape and assessed organizational readiness for NGS implementation at two childhood cancer treatment centers in Accra ...
Melissa Carvalho +6 more
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Psychological, Social, and Clinical Outcomes of Medicalization During Pregnancy and Childbirth: A Scoping Review [PDF]
Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical SciencesBackground and purpose: With the increasing use of medical technologies, questions arise about the benefits and risks of these technologies for mothers and newborns.
Zeinab Hashemi +2 more
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