Abstract:Abstract Medicalization refers to the processes by which problems come to be understood and treated as medical conditions. Medicalization often results in the use of pharmaceuticals. There has been a ...Abstract Medicalization refers to the processes by which problems come to be understood and treated as medical conditions. Medicalization often results in the use of pharmaceuticals. There has been a dramatic increase in the amount of medication consumed in the Western world in the past few decades, and this has led to concern about the medicalization or pharmaceuticalization of an increasingly wide range of phenomena, including aspects of the normal aging process, and risk factors for disease (such as high cholesterol). Attention has been paid to the gendered nature of medicalization but less to the socioeconomic and ethnic variation in medicalization. Differences in access to medical treatment have been widely and extensively documented, but these have rarely been linked to the concept of medicalization.Read More
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-02-21
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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