Clipping the angel's wings: why the medicalization of love may still be worrying.

Risk of Dependency Following Microsurgical Clipping in Good Grade Patients with Ruptured Anterior Circulation Aneurysms

Background: It is well known that the majority of good grade (WFNS I and II) patients who undergo microsurgical clipping achieve a favorable outcome, but still a number of patients who are independent before surgery face unfavorable outcomes signifying the impact of microsurgical clipping. The aim of this study was to quantify the risk of dependency in patients who had no previous neurological ...

Why Even the Logic of Re-Defined Choice May Still Contradict the Logic of Care in Public Health Systems?

Protective role of Pleurotus porrigens (Angel's wings) against gentamicin-induced nephrotoxicty in mice.

OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to quantitatively evaluate the recovery effects of methanolic fraction Angel's wings on gentamicin (GM)-induced nephrotoxicity. MATERIAL AND METHODS Renal injury was achieved by injecting 100 mg/kg, intraperitoneally of GM in normal saline. Extract were administrated intraperitoneally at doses 200 and 400 mg/kg. Blood samples were examined for serum creatin...

On good and bad forms of medicalization.

The ongoing 'enhancement' debate pits critics of new self-shaping technologies against enthusiasts. One important thread of that debate concerns medicalization, the process whereby 'non-medical' problems become framed as 'medical' problems. In this paper I consider the charge of medicalization, which critics often level at new forms of technological self-shaping, and explain how that charge can...

توسعه‌ی مفهوم پزشکی‌زدگی: بیمار یا مشتری، حقیقت یا آرزو، سلامتی یا سوداگری

"Medicalization" occurs when the non-medical issues are defined and treated in the medical field. The purpose of this study was to develop the concept of medicalization and the transition of the concept from patient to the customer, truth to wishes and treatment to trading. The study is a review research conducted through reviewing the library and electronic resources to develop medicalization’...