If Americans stopped seeing certain problems as medical conditions, it might be possible to whittle away some of the more than $2 trillion the country spends annually on healthcare, reports the ...

Suppose there was someone who's perfectly healthy, just stressed, or worried, or or unhappy. And suppose that, for whatever reason, they go see their doctor about their problems, they get a diagnosis ...

The Medicalization of Birth and Death, by Lauren Hall, associate professor of political science. Published by John Hopkins University Press. For many generations, most Americans were born – and died – ...

Autism children and parents enjoy a Halloween-style fall festival Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, at Carrie Fitts Real Estate in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Gary Cosby Jr.-Tuscaloosa News / Two weeks ago, a team of ...

The term "medicalization" was popularized by the Catholic philosopher and social critic Ivan Illich. Illich was troubled by the way in which what was formerly regarded as deviant behavior had come to ...

Michelle Newhart (PhDSoc’13) and her husband’s book, titled The Medicalization of Marijuana: Legitimacy, Stigma, and the Patient Experience, takes a comprehensive look at how patients negotiate ...

This article critically examines the proliferation of information on the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination as integral to contemporary processes of medicalization that take the young female body ...

I was sorry to see the Thursday headline out of Idaho that they had banned some endocrine treatments and elective, cosmetic surgeries for minors (“Idaho governor signs bill criminalizing ...

Vol. 3, No. 3, Special Issue: Health, Illness and Medicine in the Media (July 1999), pp. 317-333 (17 pages) Published By: Sage Publications, Ltd. This article examines the depiction of lay people ...

The number of people reporting “work-limiting health conditions” has risen by 41% since 2015 to reach 8.7 million. Britain’s youth are grappling with worse mental health now than 10 years ago, pushing ...

Two weeks ago, a team of American researchers published a major report documenting an astonishing rise in the diagnosis of ...