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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Medicalisation"”.
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The trouble with white pants: medicalisation and agency in the context of menstrual suppression
… with reviewing the sociological concept of 'medicalisation' in such a context.
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The ante-tempus narrative : fictions of medicine and prevention
… fiction, the discourse of prevention and mass-medicalisation in the context of contemporary neoliberal capitalist societies. My analysis is triggered by contemporary medicine’s shift towards a practice of ‘futurology’, which seeks less to cure existing diseases than to prevent their occurrence …
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Missionary Print Culture and Medical Knowledge in the South Pacific and Britain, ca. 1795-1850
… medicine; disease and depopulation; the medicalisation of sexuality; childbirth; and death and dying. As the missionaries strived to investigate new ways of healing on the ground, their experiences of sickness and death played a significant role in shaping the knowledge networks that …
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"Even the dog has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder" (ADHD). A cross-cultural comparative study of parents’ and teachers’ knowledge and attitudes towards ADHD in Scotland and Romania
… themes such as ADHD as a medical condition, the medicalisation of behaviour, behaviour as out of control or the specialness of ADHD. However, participants also adopted a social conceptualisation of ADHD, referring to ADHD as a social phenomenon, resisting medicalisation and describing the …
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Was the Tooth Fairy breast fed? The politics of infant tooth decay
… caries. Further, consideration is given to the medicalisation of breast feeding and the associated commercial infant feeding dispute. The thesis attempts to redress the current lack of theoretical analysis of the construction of dental knowledge. To date there has been minimal academic …
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The pursuit of happiness: using Hellenistic and Romantic foundations to demedicalise and demystify modern therapeutic approaches regarding depression
… functioning. I conclude that a degree of 'de-medicalisation' is required to allow room for such re-introduction of philosophical focus in therapeutic approaches.
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Embodied Remedies: Plant Medicine in the Art of Fiona Hall, Janet Laurence and Lauren Berkowitz
… medicine to provide feminist perspectives on the medicalisation of contemporary society. Through installations, sculptures, photographs, paintings and mixed-media works that foreground the sensory, ecological and historical dimensions of medicinal plants, these artists explore the entanglements …
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Embodied Remedies: Plant Medicine in the Art of Fiona Hall, Janet Laurence and Lauren Berkowitz
… medicine to provide feminist perspectives on the medicalisation of contemporary society. Through installations, sculptures, photographs, paintings and mixed-media works that foreground the sensory, ecological and historical dimensions of medicinal plants, these artists explore the entanglements …
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Cardiac pacemakers in paediatric patients: a qualitative study of patient and parental experience
… identity, coping with having a pacemaker and medicalisation of life. Five main themes emerged from the parent group analysis: guilt, adjustment as a process over time, coping with having a child with a pacemaker, the battle for control and my perception of my child. Each of the main themes …
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A mixed-method exploration of the level of respect provided to women during childbirth at healthcare facilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
… from the health system to the women level. The medicalisation of birth, hospital policies and facilities had a downward effect on women’s autonomy, needs and overall experiences. Mechanisms and recommendations for providing solutions to these issues have been suggested to promote respectful …
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Vexatious Bodies in Modern Ireland
… excluded and acted as a catalyst for accelerated medicalisation and in turn modernisation. Ultimately, AIDS forced Irish society to turn and look
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Pain, childhood, and the emotions: a cultural history c. 1870-1950
… different professions and institutions; despite medicalisation, identifying and categorising children with pain often depended on non-medical factors, which usually reflected social norms; the figure of the child in pain accumulates power and value through its multiple figurations in distinct …
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‘Fighting a losing battle’: A Glaserian Grounded Theory of midwives’ workplace stress
… practice has become more complex due to the medicalisation of childbirth and 21st century lifestyles, which have contributed to a rise in critical incidents and emergency situations amongst labouring, birthing and postpartum women. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine whether …
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Communication, Disability, and Scientific Interventions in South Asia, c. 1860-1970
… it. It critically assesses how processes of medicalisation occurred in South Asia, shedding light onto the construction of new speech-language disabilities and the ideal of fluency.
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How valid and useful is a locally-developed frailty tool for joint decision-making by patients, families and clinicians?
… end stages of their lives and whether the “bio-medicalisation” of the ageing process has now become routine. The context of an ageing population, limited finances, and an emerging bio-ethical field concerning elderly medical treatment, has created a need to understand what frailty looks like, …
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He Kanohi Kitea Ka Hoki Ngā Mahara: Ngāti Porou kuia tell the stories encompassing their childbirth experiences
… directed by Western notions, specifically medicalisation. Fortunately, inherent understanding of birth has contributed to preserving integral concepts pertinent to a Māori perspective. Collective relationships are vital, in particular whānau have a crucial role in supporting wāhine through …
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Latitudinaria latitude in thought or conduct
… working experiences in the health system. The ‘medicalisation of the life span’ and the discrepancy of creating a sustainable future less profit orientated are two indicators of how far we have been removed from our bodies. These observations are supported by the writing of Ivan Illich’s Medical …
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Equitable Access to Assisted Reproduction: Designing regulation for efficacious realisation of the right to reproductive health
… ART provision, including those of undue medicalisation, limited resource prioritisation, and indistinguishability of ARTs from other life projects.
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Excessive Presences: An Ethnography of Experiences of Crisis in the Italian Asylum System
… of anthropological literature criticizing the medicalisation of trauma and emphasizing the correlations between restrictive migration policies and migrants’ mental distress, research rarely goes beyond the categories of suffering, illness and health. The assumption that a psychic life falling …
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