There are many analogies between medical and judicial practice. This article explores one such analogy, “medicalization” “criminalization.” Specifically, drawing on an analogy a judge’s speech act of delivering verdict physician’s giving diagnosis, it suggests novel account the phenomenon “overdiagnosis.” Using this approach, we can make some headway in understanding debates over early detectio...

Many medical, ethical, legal and political issues have been raised by legislation in California removing criminal penalties for the medical use of marijuana. The California Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM) has taken an addiction medicine perspective on the use of marijuana as medicine in an effort to create a neutral framework for dealing with these issues. As part of this perspective, CSAM...

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This study discusses, through bibliographic research, the recurrence of naturalization as basis for the medicalization of the female body, as a means of social control through biological reproduction, whereby behavioral standards, social class, ethnic and race differences are rearranged/redefined. Through this process, male patriarchal and class predominance is maintained and the rift of social...

The study analyzes factors and processes identified in the literature that determine the patterns of production, use and assessment of the health care technologies, which are part of the "medicalization" of contemporary societies. We also evaluate the scientific and technological public and health care policies proposed during the 1990s in developed and developing countries to enhance the impac...

This paper offers a critical feminist analysis of the biomedical conceptualization of women's sexual desire. The five major features of the biomedical model of female sexual desire examined and critiqued are: 1) use of the male model as the standard, 2) use of a linear model of sexual response, 3) biological reductionism, 4) depoliticalization, and 5) medicalization of variation. A "New View", ...

the state. Caring for the poor in hospitals and during home visits, individual physicians since the Enlightenment got involved in political reform movements, joining their voices to describe the evils of urbanization and industrialization. Other work has exposed the recent political fortunes of the medical profession itself and its struggles to achieve a healing monopoly. As the Porters point o...