Understanding women's sleep management: beyond medicalization-healthicization?

Gender differences in approaches to self-management of poor sleep in later life.

In this paper we seek to understand the influence of gender on the different approaches to managing poor sleep by older men and women through the conceptual framework of existing theoretical debates on medicalization, healthicization and 'personalization'. In-depth interviews undertaken between January and July 2008 with 62 people aged 65-95 who were experiencing poor sleep, revealed that the m...

Uterine leiomyoma: understanding the impact of symptoms on womens’ lives

BACKGROUND Most women report negative experience about the symptoms of uterine leiomyoma (UL) in their lives, such as abnormal uterine bleeding and pelvic pain. Many studies have been conducted about efficacy of UL treatment, but little research has been performed about womens health related quality of life (HRQL). METHODS This is a semi-structured, descriptive, observational, qualitative stu...

Beyond systemic hypertension: understanding cardiac dysfunction in obstructive sleep apnea.

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/journals/res In this issue of Respiration, Alchanatis et al. [1] report their evaluation of left ventricular (LV) cardiac function in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) before and after 3 months of nocturnal nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP) treatment. The authors attempted to look beyond the known effects of systemic hypertension as...

Understanding Neurosensory Sleep Algorithms

The Medicalization of Deviance

This article examines the medicalization of deviance through a sociological lens. A definition of deviance is offered in terms of behavioral conduct, and indicates potential reasons individuals behave in a deviant manner. Next, a description of the medicalization of deviance is offered that describes ways deviant behaviors have been re-categorized as medical conditions that can be treated throu...