Medicalization: A historical perspective
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Medicalization: A historical perspective
The spectrum of human condition is bell shaped, and an area around the midpoint has been chosen arbitrarily to define as the norm. Physically and mentally maladaptive outliers have been treated as diseases and fell into the realm of medicine. Many "nondisease" states can creep up into medicine and with time become medicalized through medicalization because of redefining many conditions long con...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of General and Family Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2189-7948
DOI: 10.1002/jgf2.22