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Medicalization

Medicalization is the process by which human conditions and problems come to be defined and treated as medical conditions, and thus become the subject of medical study, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment. Medicalization can be driven by new evidence or hypotheses about conditions; by changing social attitudes or economic considerations; or by the…

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Irving ZolaPeter ConradThomas SzaszEric CassellHyperkinesis
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Pharmaceutical industryTransgenderIntersexHIV/AIDSSocial control
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Professionals, patients, corporations and society

CatalystsBiomedicineDrugsDeviancesSocietal norms
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Medicalization

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Avg. degree1.98
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related to Further reading · 55
Medicalization → Allan, Anthony Ryan, Behavioral Sciences, Captive America, Christopher, Conrad, Depressive Disorder, February, Hatch, Health Policy, History, Horwitz, How Normal Behavior Became, How Psychiatry Has Transformed, Human Conditions, Illich, International Journal, ISBN, Ivan, Jamoulle
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Medicalization → According, ADHD, Chorover, Conrad's, Eric Cassell's, Foucault, Goals, However, Irving Zola, Medicine, Peter Conrad, Rosen, Suffering, Szasz, The, The Nature, These, This, Thomas Szasz
related to Psychiatry · 14
Medicalization → Allen Frances, American, American Psychiatric Association, Benjamin Rush, Black, Consequently, For, Kirk, More, Paula Caplan, Peter Breggin, Robert Spitzer, Stuart, Thomas Szasz
related to Professionals, patients, corporations and society · 9
Medicalization → At, Even, Many, Mens Sana Monographs, Others, Several, Sex, The, Titles
related to Sexuality and gender · 5
Medicalization → HIV/AIDS, Many, The, The HIV/AIDS, This
is a · 2
Medicalization → process by which human conditions and problems come to be defined and treated as medical conditions, social process through which a condition becomes seen as a medical disease in need of treatment
related to Labeling theory · 2
Medicalization → British Medical Journal, The

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medical social health also human disease society medicine patients problems may control people used process conditions drugs pharmaceutical treatment condition

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Medicalizationis asocial process through which a condition becomes seen as a medical disease in need of treatment0.90text
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Vicente Navarroinstance ofMenstruation and pregnancy had come to be seen as medical problems requiring interventions such as hysterectomies.Marxists0.80text
obesityinstance ofInnumerable other conditions0.80text
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bachelorhoodinstance ofInnumerable other conditions0.80text
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