Since the discovery of HIV, the advent of anti-retrovirals in the late 80s heralded an era of medicalization of HIV and fostered major advancements in the management of the disease. Africa, despite its high HIV burden, lagged behind in the adoption of these advancements due to major resource and logistical constraints. Innovative responses such as family-centered models of care, community syste...

The medicalization of female genital cutting (FGC) has been increasing. This cross-sectional study estimated the determinants of the practice of FGC among Egyptian physicians. Responses from 193 physicians showed that while 88% of them knew at least one adverse physical or sexual consequence, 18% approved of it, mostly as a religious observation (82%). Almost one-fifth (19%) of physicians pract...

“Medical” marijuana is approved in 21 states and the District of Columbia for numerous conditions, including glaucoma, Crohn disease, posttraumatic stress disorder, epilepsy, Alzheimer disease, and chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. Both the number of states and the number of approved indications for medical marijuana are expected to increase. Physicians will bear the responsibility of p...

analysis which I had documented seven, and then three years earlier by taking my examples from modern education and then from motorized transporta*Address to open the Spring Meeting of the Royal College of General Practitioners, Dublin, 28 April 1982._" © Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 1982, 32, 463-470. tion. In all three instances, my task consisted in putting into a h...

Faced with the limitations of present public policy, many health care professionals are being forced to define the social needs of their elderly clients in medical terms in order for these needs to be addressed. The policy analysis presented here attempts to explain this phenomenon and argues on behalf of a more rational and comprehensive approach to policy and services for the elderly in this ...

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Abstract Within the nutritionism paradigm, in this article we critically review marketization and medicalization logics which aim to address pressing issue of malnutrition low- middle-income countries. Drawing from political economy food system transformation discourses, are using popular intervention types nutrition-sensitive value chains (marketization logic) biofortification exemplified thro...

Recently, a series of physicians have appeared on national news programs, reassuring the public that psychiatric disorders have been confirmed as “real”diseases of the brain. Perhaps the context of these announcements–a heated exchange between two Hollywood celebrities who have clashed over the medicalization and treatment of postpartum depression –has prevented the media from noticing serious ...