BACKGROUND Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a traditional harmful practice that can cause severe physical and psychological damages to girls and women. Increasingly, trained health-care providers carry out the practice at the request of families. It is important to understand the motivations of providers in order to reduce the medicalization of FGM. This integrative review identifies, apprais...

This article aims to bring a discussion about inclusion in times of biopolitics and neoliberalism and, for that, we will present concepts understandings normalization, medicalization, neoliberalism. In the search an analytical movement using methodology bibliographic research, selected three academic works defended by GEduMaD research group read them from theoretical lens presented at beginning...

Objective of the study is to consider transformation attitudes towards old age and age, as well rethink policy active longevity, which actively going on after pandemic, aspects that slow down perception aging a productive time opportunity deserve special attention. Here we can highlight issue medicalization in general, present both at global intercountry levels, local level. The methodological ...

The present paper examines the ways in which Covid-19 pandemic and resulting declarations of emergencies posed great threats to rule law human rights. Giorgio Agamben’s narratives on exception were used constituted theoretical framework this study. study begins with clarification idea state explanation a certain phenomenon; “medicalization politics”. Subsequently, cases Hungary Poland are being...

This paper explores the role of film and medical-health practices and discourses in the building and legitimating strategies of Franco's fascist regime in Spain. The analysis of five medical-colonial documentary films produced during the 1940s explores the relationship between mass media communication practices and techno-scientific knowledge production, circulation and management processes. Th...

This paper analyzes the debate about the ethical conflicts of the methods used by the pharmaceutical industry in the research, production and dissemination of medicines. Three aspects are examined: the involvement of medical professionals with representatives of the pharmaceutical industry; the conflicts of interest regarding their role as sponsors of scientific research; and the evaluation of ...

Sleeplessness, a universal condition with diverse causes, may be increasingly diagnosed and treated (or medicalized) as insomnia. We examined the trend in sleeplessness complaints, diagnoses, and prescriptions of sedative hypnotics in physician office visits from 1993 to 2007. Consistent with the medicalization hypothesis, sleeplessness complaints and insomnia diagnoses increased over time and ...