This Essay critically examines how medicine actively engages in the reproductive subordination of Black women. In obstetrics, particularly, women must contend with both gender and race subordination. Early American gynecology treated as expendable clinical material for its institutional needs. medical violence was animated by biological racism legal economic exigencies antebellum era. Medical c...

In response to the questioning of Health Policy and Management (HPAM) by colleagues on the role of rank and file family physicians in the same journal, the author, a family physician in Belgium, is trying to highlight the complexity and depth of the work of his colleagues and their contribution to the understanding of the organization and economy of healthcare. It addresses, in particular, the ...

Over the years, what started as a screening to determine which pregnant women were at risk of developing diabetes later in life has changed progressively into a screening for diabetes during pregnancy. From only screening women with risk factors, the medical community has moved to a universal screening for glucose intolerance during pregnancy. Recently, the push has been to expand this screenin...

in response to the questioning of health policy and management (hpam) by colleagues on the role of rank and file family physicians in the same journal, the author, a family physician in belgium, is trying to highlight the complexity and depth of the work of his colleagues and their contribution to the understanding of the organization and economy of healthcare. it addresses, in particular, the ...

A inexistência de terapêutica eficaz para a infeção covid-19, abriu caminho um empirismo exacerbado tentativa/erro encontrar soluções tratamento qualquer preço, deter esta doença que foi e continua ser mortal , práticamente em todo o Planeta. proposta aplicação do princípio da beneficência como fundamentação ao uso medicamentos off label, no COVID-19, parte necessidade oferecer médico os parâme...

BACKGROUND In Thailand, family practice was developed primarily through a small number of self-styled family practitioners, who were dedicated to this professional field without having benefited from formal training in the specific techniques of family practice. In the context of a predominantly hospital-based health care system, much depends on their personal motivation and commitment to this ...

BACKGROUND According to the Wonca International Dictionary for General/Family Practice Quaternary Prevention is defined as: 'Action taken to identify patient at risk of overmedicalization, to protect him from new medical invasion, and to suggest to him interventions, which are ethically acceptable.' The concept of quaternary prevention was initially proposed by Marc Jamoulle and the targets wer...

BACKGROUND Patients with serious chronic illness are at a greater risk of depersonalized, overmedicalized care as they move into later life. Existing intervention research on person-focused care for persons in this transitional period is limited. OBJECTIVE To test the effects of LifeCourse, a team-based, whole-person intervention emphasizing listening to and knowing patients, on patient exper...

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...