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(Re)medicalizing the Male Menopause

This article analyzes the contemporary construction of male menopause as a clinical disorder. While medical interest in a male climacteric has waxed and waned over the past century, the past decade has witnessed a surge of both scientific and commercial interest in its diagnosis and treatment. In explaining why this is the case, the author suggests that shifting cultural narratives of aging and...

The hazards of medicalizing variants of normal.

Elsewhere in this issue of Pediatrics there appears an important article pointing to the hazards of using a disease label to describe a common, usually normal physiologic variant, regurgitation in small infants: “Influence of “GERD” Label on Parents’ Decision to Medicate Infants with Excessive Crying and Reflux” by Scherer et al. The authors’ concern is that acid-reducing medications are being ...

Stemming needless deaths: "medicalizing" the problem of injection drug use.

Medicalizing to demedicalize: lactation consultants and the (de)medicalization of breastfeeding.

This paper uses the domain of breastfeeding in the U.S. and the work of International Board Certified Lactation Consultants to refine the concept of medicalization-demedicalization. Given lactation consultants' origins and current role in maternity care, they provide a unique lens on these processes because they are positioned at the crossroads of medicalization and demedicalization. Using 150 ...

Analysis on Components Complexity During Execution of Construction Projects

Development is the fundamental area in enabling India`s economy and urban and provincial structure. Development is a multi-connected structure where all variables are bury connected and multi-centered. All the three limitations time, expense and quality ought to be adjusted in an improved way, so that no segment gets influenced by dismissing those. The goal of this study is to distinguish the m...