Background Medicalization has been a topic of discussion and research for over four decades. It is a known concept to researchers from a broad range of disciplines. Medicalization appears to be a concept that speaks to all, suggesting a shared understanding of what it constitutes. However, conceptually, the definition of medicalizat...

Social scientists and other analysts have written about medicalization since at least the 1970s. Most of these studies depict the medical profession, interprofessional or organizational contests, or social movements and interest groups as the prime movers toward medicalization. This article contends that changes in medicine in the past two decades are altering the medicalization process. Using ...

Background and aims: Medicalization is the process of extending medical gaze on human conditions which is not intrinsically bad phenomenon. Engaging in the medicalization out of defined thresholds or the bad form of medicalization is called overmedicalization. Detriment, dispensable death and waste of numerous resources are the causes of over-medicalization. The aim of this scoping review was t...

Researchers from several fields of knowledge have dedicated themselves to the investigation origins, materializations, and outcomes "medicalization" phenomenon. Aiming help this debate, it was conducted a broad survey analysis numbers that surround theme, especially regarding growth production, marketing, consumption medicines on global national scale (Brazil). The results point out pharmaceuti...

Purpose of Review Female genital cutting/mutilation (FGM/C) performed by health care professionals (medicalization) and reduced severity of cutting have been advanced as strategies for minimizing health risks, sparking acrimonious ongoing debates. This study summarizes key debates and critically assesses supporting evidence. Recent Findings While medicalization is concentrated in Africa, heal...

In this paper, my goal is to use an epistemic injustice framework extend existing normative analysis of over-medicalization psychiatry and thus draw attention overlooked injustices. Kaczmarek (2019) has developed a promising bioethical pragmatic approach over-medicalization, which consists four guiding questions covering issues related the harms benefits medicalization. nutshell, if we answer “...

The ongoing 'enhancement' debate pits critics of new self-shaping technologies against enthusiasts. One important thread of that debate concerns medicalization, the process whereby 'non-medical' problems become framed as 'medical' problems. In this paper I consider the charge of medicalization, which critics often level at new forms of technological self-shaping, and explain how that charge can...