Here’s a question that’s not being asked in the healthcare debate: How much medical care do we want in our lives? It’s something we should be discussing. Start with the two life events we all ...
Menopause. Normal pregnancy. Infertility. ADHD. Erectile dysfunction. Over the last several decades, these conditions have come to be defined and treated as medical problems. They’ve been “medicalized ...
Autism children and parents enjoy a Halloween-style fall festival Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, at Carrie Fitts Real Estate in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Gary Cosby Jr.-Tuscaloosa News / Two weeks ago, a team of ...
The Medicalization of Birth and Death, by Lauren Hall, associate professor of political science. Published by John Hopkins University Press. For many generations, most Americans were born – and died – ...
Explore the medicalization of mental health and its implications, including how SSRIs might change public perception of treatment. Suppose there was someone who's perfectly healthy, just stressed, or ...
This article critically examines the proliferation of information on the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination as integral to contemporary processes of medicalization that take the young female body ...
Got the blues? Here's a pill. Not happy with the shape of your belly? A tummy tuck will fix that. Want to schedule the date of your healthy baby's birth? A scalpel will be waiting. Thirty-five years ...
Vol. 3, No. 3, Special Issue: Health, Illness and Medicine in the Media (July 1999), pp. 317-333 (17 pages) Published By: Sage Publications, Ltd. This article examines the depiction of lay people ...
James: Let me tell you something, you're prediabetic. In this bit, James suggests that medicalization has gone too far, and I tend to agree with him. However, medicalization isn't inherently bad; it's ...
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