... a longstanding prioritization of medical interventions over broader social support systems. This has contributed to widening racial and class inequalities alongside poor health outcomes, weakened communities, and growing social isolation that has created fertile ground for rising authoritarianism. Following...

... of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract Women living with mental health symptoms face the dilemma of continuing psychotropic medication when pregnant or breastfeeding. Based on two years of observations...

...Sara Perelmuter Corresponding author: Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10021 United States. Email: [email protected] 01 09 2023 31 03 2024 11 04 2024 © The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The International Society of Sexual Medicine...

... language carries. bioenhancement chronic fatigue syndrome defining disease depression illness languages of medicalization virtual clinic Language is powerful. It alters reality, shapes expectations, and changes perceptions. Languages...

...Farr A Curlin Eric Cassell is best known for his work calling on medical practitioners to attend to patient suffering. ² Suffering, he rightly noted, is not reducible to pain. Pain is only one of many causes of suffering, which he defines as “the state of severe distress associated...

...Shannon K Withycombe [email protected] Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America Turner Felicity M. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2022 . 246 pp. © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved...

... in the ways clinical professionals understand pain and the scope of their obligations to treat it. My own experience may prove instructive here: I entered physical therapy school at the Medical College of Virginia in 1979, which was incidentally about the same time the medical specialty now called pain...

... (such as the Statistical Manual for the Use of Institutions for the Insane). Pharmaceuticals: As there are no medications prescribed for sex addiction, we conducted a literature review on the debates surrounding this topic. Therapy: We conducted face-to-face or online semi-structured interviews...

... population in 2014. Address correspondence to: Warren Kinghorn, MD, ThD, Duke University Medical Center and Duke Divinity School, Box 90867, Durham, NC 27708. E-mail: [email protected] © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of The Journal of Christian Bioethics, Inc...

...: [email protected] 2023 This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract The medicalization of risk rests on foundational assumptions shared...

... are often viewed as examples of places with ‘liberal abortion laws’ in Europe. ¹³ This is a misconception. In both jurisdictions, the viability threshold acts as a significant barrier to accessing abortion services. Even before viability, access is limited by being contingent upon medical...

...Lauren MacIvor Thompson [email protected] The work of Jones and Drucker reveals key insights into how commerce and technology were both powerful enough forces to overcome the medical and legal restrictions that shaped reproductive health in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but also...

...). In the clinical context, the practice of pathologizing ugliness is exemplified by the term “aesthetic pathology”, a medical designation for features that deviate from some aesthetic norms ( Dolezal, 2010 , 368). In general, pathologization in clinical practice involves the use of disease-sounding terminology...

... public anxiety about old age and to sensitize society to the struggles confronted by older adults. In undertaking the range of activities needed to do so, age advocacy organizations should consolidate efforts even as they rethink existing strategies to effectuate change. Age advocacy Medicalization...

... their hearing counterparts, proved especially industrious workers in war-production factories during both world wars. However, Virdi’s intentions are clear: her project explores the medicalization of deafness. This is an immense historiographical contribution, as deafness is largely overlooked in the history...

... of health happiness medicalization mental health psychological flexibility well-being What is it to be mentally healthy? In the ongoing movement to promote mental health at work and in schools, to reduce stigma and to establish parity between mental and physical health, there is a clear enthusiasm...

... are provided in the following section. Hypothesis 2, a mediation hypothesis, states that the association between the Aging Policy Agenda Setting and SAS will be mediated by Medicalization of Aging (defined as the association of physical health and medical terminology with older adults; Heidekrueger et al...

...Sarah Whetstone By the late 1960s, the notion of addiction as a metabolic disease had succeeded in relegating the competing criminal personality theories largely to corrections and carceral rehab. Popular understandings of addiction have since undergone a rapid process of (bio)medicalization...

... is equitable by users’ race and the drug type. Using the opiate and crack cocaine crises as cases, we analyze 400 articles from the New York Times and Washington Post to assess the degree to which the two crises were racialized, criminalized, and medicalized. We find that media coverage...

... ). These programs are predicated on Palmore’s (1977) landmark “facts on aging” quiz (updated by Breytspraak & Badura, 2015 ) that identified the content of negative age stereotypes, and increasingly used in medical education ( Unwin et al., 2008 ). At the societal level, campaigns to combat the overwhelming...