Table of Contents
85 relations: Addiction, Advocate, Alcoholism, Allen Frances, Alternative medicine, American Psychiatric Association, Anti-psychiatry, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Barbara Ehrenreich, Benjamin Rush, Biomedicine, Breastfeeding, British Journal of General Practice, Capitalism, Catalysis, Consumer, Corporation, Deviance (sociology), Direct-to-consumer advertising, Disease, Disease mongering, Drug, Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, Erectile dysfunction, Eric Cassell, Feminism, Feminist movement, Fluoxetine, Franco Basaglia, Gay liberation, Gothenburg Study of Children with DAMP, Hans-Georg Gadamer, HIV/AIDS, Human sexuality, Hyperkinetic disorder, Hysterectomy, Iatrogenesis, Ideology, Infertility, Intersex, Interventionism (medicine), Irving Zola, Ivan Illich, Journal of Medical Ethics, Late-onset hypogonadism, Marxism, Masculinity, Medical model, Medical model of disability, Medical prescription, ... Expand index (35 more) »
- Medical sociology
Addiction
Addiction is a neuropsychological disorder characterized by a persistent and intense urge to use a drug or engage in a behavior that produces natural reward, despite substantial harm and other negative consequences.
See Medicalization and Addiction
Advocate
An advocate is a professional in the field of law.
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Alcoholism
Alcoholism is the continued drinking of alcohol despite it causing problems.
See Medicalization and Alcoholism
Allen Frances
Allen J. Frances (born 2 October 1942) is an American psychiatrist.
See Medicalization and Allen Frances
Alternative medicine
Alternative medicine is any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine despite lacking biological plausibility, testability, repeatability or evidence of effectiveness.
See Medicalization and Alternative medicine
American Psychiatric Association
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the largest psychiatric organization in the world.
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Anti-psychiatry
Anti-psychiatry, sometimes spelled antipsychiatry, is a movement based on the view that psychiatric treatment is often more damaging than helpful to patients, highlighting controversies about psychiatry.
See Medicalization and Anti-psychiatry
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by executive dysfunction occasioning symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity and emotional dysregulation that are excessive and pervasive, impairing in multiple contexts, and otherwise age-inappropriate.
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Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich (August 26, 1941 – September 1, 2022) was an American author and political activist.
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Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Rush (April 19, 1813) was an American revolutionary, a Founding Father of the United States and signatory to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, educator, and the founder of Dickinson College.
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Biomedicine
Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine)"." NCI Dictionary of Cancer Medicine.
See Medicalization and Biomedicine
Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding, variously known as chestfeeding or nursing, is the process where breast milk is fed to a child.
See Medicalization and Breastfeeding
British Journal of General Practice
The British Journal of General Practice is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal for general practitioners and primary care researchers.
See Medicalization and British Journal of General Practice
Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.
See Medicalization and Capitalism
Catalysis
Catalysis is the increase in rate of a chemical reaction due to an added substance known as a catalyst.
See Medicalization and Catalysis
Consumer
A consumer is a person or a group who intends to order, or use purchased goods, products, or services primarily for personal, social, family, household and similar needs, who is not directly related to entrepreneurial or business activities.
See Medicalization and Consumer
Corporation
A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law as "born out of statute"; a legal person in a legal context) and recognized as such in law for certain purposes.
See Medicalization and Corporation
Deviance (sociology)
Deviance or the sociology of deviance explores the actions and/or behaviors that violate social norms across formally enacted rules (e.g., crime) as well as informal violations of social norms (e.g., rejecting folkways and mores).
See Medicalization and Deviance (sociology)
Direct-to-consumer advertising
Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) refers to the marketing and advertising of pharmaceutical products directly to consumers as patients, as opposed to specifically targeting health professionals.
See Medicalization and Direct-to-consumer advertising
Disease
A disease is a particular abnormal condition that adversely affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism and is not immediately due to any external injury.
See Medicalization and Disease
Disease mongering
Disease mongering is a pejorative term for the practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of illnesses and aggressively promoting their public awareness in order to expand the markets for treatment. Medicalization and Disease mongering are social constructionism and social problems in medicine.
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Drug
A drug is any chemical substance other than a nutrient or an essential dietary ingredient, which, when administered to a living organism, produces a biological effect.
Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS
The global pandemic of HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) began in 1981, and is an ongoing worldwide public health issue.
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Erectile dysfunction
Erectile dysfunction (ED), also referred to as impotence, is a form of sexual dysfunction in males characterized by the persistent or recurring inability to achieve or maintain a penile erection with sufficient rigidity and duration for satisfactory sexual activity.
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Eric Cassell
Eric Jonathan Cassell (August 29, 1928September 24, 2021) was an American physician and bioethicist.
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Feminism
Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.
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Feminist movement
The feminist movement, also known as the women's movement, refers to a series of social movements and political campaigns for radical and liberal reforms on women's issues created by inequality between men and women.
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Fluoxetine
Fluoxetine, sold under the brand name Prozac, among others, is an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class.
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Franco Basaglia
Franco Basaglia (11 March 1924 29 August 1980) was an Italian psychiatrist, neurologist, and professor, who proposed the dismantling of psychiatric hospitals, pioneer of the modern concept of mental health, Italian psychiatry reformer, figurehead and founder of Democratic Psychiatry, architect, and principal proponent of Law 180, which abolished mental hospitals in Italy.
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Gay liberation
The gay liberation movement was a social and political movement of the late 1960s through the mid-1980s in the Western world, that urged lesbians and gay men to engage in radical direct action, and to counter societal shame with gay pride.
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Gothenburg Study of Children with DAMP
The Gothenburg Study of Children with DAMP was a study of six-year-old children in Gothenburg, Sweden that began in 1977.
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Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer (11 February 1900 – 13 March 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus on hermeneutics, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode).
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HIV/AIDS
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system.
See Medicalization and HIV/AIDS
Human sexuality
Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually.
See Medicalization and Human sexuality
Hyperkinetic disorder
Hyperkinetic disorder was a neuropsychiatric condition that was thought to emerge in early childhood.
See Medicalization and Hyperkinetic disorder
Hysterectomy
Hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus and cervix.
See Medicalization and Hysterectomy
Iatrogenesis
Iatrogenesis is the causation of a disease, a harmful complication, or other ill effect by any medical activity, including diagnosis, intervention, error, or negligence. Medicalization and Iatrogenesis are social problems in medicine.
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Ideology
An ideology is a set of beliefs or philosophies attributed to a person or group of persons, especially those held for reasons that are not purely epistemic, in which "practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones".
See Medicalization and Ideology
Infertility
Infertility is the inability of an animal or plant to reproduce by natural means.
See Medicalization and Infertility
Intersex
Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics, including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies". Medicalization and Intersex are medical controversies.
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Interventionism (medicine)
Interventionism, when discussing the practice of medicine, is generally a derogatory term used by critics of a medical model in which patients are viewed as passive recipients receiving external treatments provided by the physician that have the effect of prolonging life, or at least of providing a subjective sense of doing everything possible.
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Irving Zola
Irving Kenneth Zola (1935 – December 1, 1994) was an American activist and writer in medical sociology and disability rights.
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Ivan Illich
Ivan Dominic Illich (4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic.
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Journal of Medical Ethics
The Journal of Medical Ethics is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of bioethics that was established in 1975 and is published by BMJ.
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Late-onset hypogonadism
Late-onset hypogonadism (LOH) or testosterone deficiency syndrome (TDS) is a term for a condition in older men characterized by measurably low testosterone levels and clinical symptoms mostly of a sexual nature, including decreased desire for mating, fewer spontaneous erections, and erectile dysfunction.
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Marxism
Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.
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Masculinity
Masculinity (also called manhood or manliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles associated with men and boys. Medicalization and Masculinity are social constructionism.
See Medicalization and Masculinity
Medical model
Medical model is the term coined by psychiatrist R. D. Laing in his The Politics of the Family and Other Essays (1971), for the "set of procedures in which all doctors are trained". Medicalization and Medical model are medical sociology.
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Medical model of disability
The medical model of disability, or medical model, is based in a biomedical perception of disability. Medicalization and medical model of disability are medical sociology.
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Medical prescription
A prescription, often abbreviated or Rx, is a formal communication from a physician or other registered healthcare professional to a pharmacist, authorizing them to dispense a specific prescription drug for a specific patient.
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Medical sociology
Medical sociology is the sociological analysis of medical organizations and institutions; the production of knowledge and selection of methods, the actions and interactions of healthcare professionals, and the social or cultural (rather than clinical or bodily) effects of medical practice.
See Medicalization and Medical sociology
Medication
A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.
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Mens Sana Monographs
The Mens Sana Monographs was a peer-reviewed open-access monographic series of mental and physical medicine.
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Opium
Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum.
Patient
A patient is any recipient of health care services that are performed by healthcare professionals.
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Paula Caplan
Paula Joan Caplan (July 7, 1947 – July 21, 2021) was an American psychologist, activist, writer, and artist.
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Pedophilia
Pedophilia (alternatively spelled paedophilia) is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children.
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Peggy J. Kleinplatz
Peggy Joy Kleinplatz is a Canadian clinical psychologist and sexologist whose work often concerns optimal sexuality, opposition to the medicalization of human sexuality, and outreach to marginalized groups.
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Peter Breggin
Peter Roger Breggin (born May 11, 1936) is an American psychiatrist and critic of shock treatment and psychiatric medication and COVID-19 response.
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Peter Conrad (sociologist)
Peter Conrad (born 1945, died 2024, raised in New Rochelle, NY) was an American medical sociologist who has researched and published on numerous topics including ADHD, the medicalization of deviance, the experience of illness, wellness in the workplace, genetics in the news, and biomedical enhancements.
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Pharmaceutical industry
The pharmaceutical industry is an industry involved in medicine that discovers, develops, produces, and markets pharmaceutical goods for use as drugs that function by being administered to (or self-administered by) patients using such medications with the goal of curing and/or preventing disease (as well as possibly alleviating symptoms of illness and/or injury).
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Pharmaceutical marketing
Pharmaceutical marketing is a branch of marketing science and practice focused on the communication, differential positioning and commercialization of pharmaceutical products, like specialist drugs, biotech drugs and over-the-counter drugs.
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Postpartum depression
Postpartum depression (PPD), also called postnatal depression, is a mood disorder experienced after childbirth, which can affect men and women.
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Premenstrual dysphoric disorder
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) is a mood disorder characterized by emotional, cognitive, and physical symptoms.
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Preventive healthcare
Preventive healthcare, or prophylaxis, is the application of healthcare measures to prevent diseases.
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Prostitution
Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.
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Public health
Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals".
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Reductionism
Reductionism is any of several related philosophical ideas regarding the associations between phenomena which can be described in terms of other simpler or more fundamental phenomena.
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Robert Spitzer (psychiatrist)
Robert Leopold Spitzer (May 22, 1932 – December 25, 2015) was a psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at Columbia University in New York City.
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Sexology
Sexology is the scientific study of human sexuality, including human sexual interests, behaviors, and functions.
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Side effect
In medicine, a side effect is an effect, whether therapeutic or adverse, that is unintended; although the term is predominantly employed to describe adverse effects, it can also apply to beneficial, but unintended, consequences of the use of a drug.
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Social control
Social control is the regulations, sanctions, mechanisms, and systems that restrict the behaviour of individuals in accordance with social norms and orders.
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Social inequality
Social inequality occurs when resources within a society are distributed unevenly, often as a result of inequitable allocation practices that create distinct unequal patterns based on socially defined categories of people.
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Social model of disability
The social model of disability identifies systemic barriers, derogatory attitudes, and social exclusion (intentional or inadvertent), which make it difficult or impossible for disabled people to attain their valued functionings. Medicalization and social model of disability are medical sociology and social constructionism.
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Social norm
Social norms are shared standards of acceptable behavior by groups.
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Social stigma
Social stigma is the disapproval of, or discrimination against, an individual or group based on perceived characteristics that serve to distinguish them from other members of a society.
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Sociocultural perspective
The sociocultural perspective is a theory used in fields such as psychology and education and is used to describe awareness of circumstances surrounding individuals and how their behaviors are affected specifically by their surrounding, social and cultural factors.
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Sociology of health and illness
The sociology of health and illness, sociology of health and wellness, or health sociology examines the interaction between society and health. Medicalization and sociology of health and illness are medical sociology.
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Stuart A. Kirk
Stuart A. Kirk holds the Marjorie Crump Chair in Social Welfare at UCLA and is a former psychiatric social worker.
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The BMJ
The BMJ is a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, published by BMJ Group, which in turn is wholly-owned by the British Medical Association (BMA).
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The Independent Review
The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering political economy and the critical analysis of government policy.
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Thomas Szasz
Thomas Stephen Szasz (Szász Tamás István; 15 April 1920 – 8 September 2012) was a Hungarian-American academic and psychiatrist.
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Transgender
A transgender person (often shortened to trans person) is someone whose gender identity differs from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth.
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University of Minnesota Press
The University of Minnesota Press is a university press that is part of the University of Minnesota.
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Vitiligo
Vitiligo is a chronic autoimmune disorder that causes patches of skin to lose pigment or color.
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See also
Medical sociology
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder controversies
- Clinical empathy
- Doctor–patient relationship
- Geneticization
- Health equity
- Health politics
- History of mental disorders
- Humanistic medicine
- Inclusion (disability rights)
- Informed consent
- Male infertility crisis
- Medical model
- Medical model of disability
- Medical sociology
- Medicalisation of sexuality
- Medicalization
- Medicine Unboxed
- Normalization process model
- Philoctetes (Sophocles play)
- Political abuse of psychiatry
- Profession of Medicine
- Psychological impact of discrimination on health
- Salutogenesis
- Self-advocacy
- Sham peer review
- Shared decision-making in medicine
- Sick role
- Social epidemiology
- Social medicine
- Social model of disability
- Sociological and cultural aspects of autism
- Sociology of health and illness
- Unwarranted variation
References
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