This review aimed to compare two concepts in the psychiatric literature: crisis and adjustment disorder. The two concepts stem from different theoretical perspectives, rely upon different (though relatively loose) bodies of data, and may serve different purposes. The concept of crisis originated from an approach that could be considered psychodynamic, humanistic, and community oriented. Treatme...

Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a common sexual problem and has been attracting growing interest from the field of medicine. The pharmaceutical industry works together with medical associations to popularize the theme, emphasizing individual enhancement and medication, besides reinforcing an idea of a male sexuality defined by the ability to have an erection and penetrate. Patients worried about e...

AIMS OF THE PAPER This paper aims to explore through historical analysis some of the means by which medicine successfully appropriated and medicalized pregnancy and childbirth and to consider the impact that this has had on women's experiences within maternity care. BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE The appropriation and medicalization of pregnancy and childbirth by men are rooted in a patriarchal mod...

New treatments for male impotence have proliferated since Viagra’s popular emergence on the market in 1998. Two such therapies recently received FDA approval for prescription use: Cialis and Levitra. This paper examines the marketing campaigns for Viagra’s competitors and asks whether these treatments offer a different discourse on impotence. Using advertising and promotional materials, the stu...

Ivan Illich was an incisive critic of aspects contemporary Western cultures, such as the over-reach obligatory institutionalized schooling, excessive medicalization society, and dangers global industrial development. From outset there a deeper edge to his work which concerned formative, but ambivalent, influence Christianity. His case is that perversion Christianity has come be woven deep into ...