Suppose there was someone who's perfectly healthy, just stressed, or worried, or or unhappy. And suppose that, for whatever reason, they go see their doctor about their problems, they get a diagnosis ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Encompassing a range of critiques, from new regimes of governmentality and biopolitical control to the iatrogenic effects of scientific ...

I was sorry to see the Thursday headline out of Idaho that they had banned some endocrine treatments and elective, cosmetic surgeries for minors (“Idaho governor signs bill criminalizing ...

(CNN)Women are not a monolith, their experiences of menopause are not all negative, and this stage of life should not be medicalized, argue an international group of experts. In an analysis piece ...

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 ...

The term "medicalization" was popularized by the Catholic philosopher and social critic Ivan Illich. Illich was troubled by the way in which what was formerly regarded as deviant behavior had come to ...

Most psychedelic advocates picture a future where the drug war is over and people are free to responsibly use a number of currently illicit substances for healing, personal growth, or simple ...

In 1861 Samuel A. Cartwright, an American physician, described a mental illness he called "drapetomania." As Wikipedia points out, the term derived from drapetes, Greek for "runaway [slave]," and ...

Michelle Newhart (PhDSoc’13) and her husband’s book, titled The Medicalization of Marijuana: Legitimacy, Stigma, and the Patient Experience, takes a comprehensive look at how patients negotiate ...

When 13-year-old Malika from a dusty village outside Cairo, Egypt turned 11, her mother took her to the doctor late at night. It was not until she saw the blood and heard the cries from the other ...

Amr Hassan, the rapporteur of the National Population Council, stated that Egypt ranks first globally in the medicalization of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), with 82 percent of females under age 17 ...