Medicalisation

Beyond medicalisation.

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Medicalisation and Cesarean Section Delivery

This chapter discusses elaborately the current discourse on medicalisation in society. The debate on medicalisation of human health by medical sociologists has been discussed to understand the different issues regarding use of medical technology and human health. The medicalisation of human body in general has received lot of attention both theoretically and empirically in the last few decades....

The medicalisation of male menopause in America.

The topic of male menopause occupied space on the medical radar screen from the late 1930s through the mid-1950s, then virtually disappeared for the next four decades, until the late 1990s. By contrast, articles on this subject appeared in American popular magazines and newspapers at a consistent, if low-level, rate throughout the same period. This essay describes how the male menopause became ...

Ebrahim The medicalisation of old age

Medicalisation in the 21st century: introduction.

What is medicalisation? What are its causes and eff ects? Who benefi ts from medicalisation, and who is harmed? What, if anything, should be done about it? Answers to these questions would have seemed quite obvious in the 1970s, when the term entered academic and medical publications: medicalisation, the expansion of medical authority into the domains of everyday existence, was promoted by doct...