Social medicalization transforms people's habits, discourages them from finding their own solutions to certain health problems and places an excess demand on the Unified Health System. With regard to healthcare provision, an alternative to social medicalization is the pluralization of treatment provided by health institutions namely through the recognition and provision of alternative and compl...

The first social transformation of American medicine institutionally established medicine by the end of World War II. In the next decades, medicalization—the expansion of medical jurisdiction, authority, and practices into new realms—became widespread. Since about 1985, dramatic changes in both the organization and practices of contemporary biomedicine, implemented largely through the integrati...

The article begins by stating that many people believe that medicalization offers the most reasonable approach to drug policy because it offers a dignified approach to treatment of addicts. However, it risks being a form of repression itself because it may define abstinence as the only acceptable treatment outcome. The article then explores the position of the medical profession in drug policy....

The medicalization of queer bodies in the clinic and the lab is inexorably linked to the history of LBGTQ politics. Increasingly, activists and scholars are recognizing that while the natural origins of queer sexualities carry a certain political weight, invoking the naturalness of being "born this way" fails to articulate a more substantive challenge to the effects of unexamined cis- and heter...

A medicalização escamoteia questões sociopolíticas, econômicas, culturais e afetivas, redescrevendo-as como fenômenos individuais biológicos, transformando modos de existência em patologias. infância tornou-se alvo constante desse processo, despontando num aumento vertiginoso no consumo psicotrópicos. Para mapear debates sobre o uso psicotrópicos entre crianças na literatura brasileira, foi rea...