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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Medicalization"”.
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Paraphilias and the Medicalization of Criminal Behavior
'Paraphilia' is the term used by professionals to indicate that a sexual fetish is severe enough to warrant being called a mental health disorder. Even after the release of the fifth edition of the DSM (DSM-5) paraphilias remain controversial. Although philosophers and scientists alike have argued …
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Teen Mothers' Perceptions of Medicalization and the Patient/Provider Relationship
… in studies dealing with the overall issue of medicalization. In an effort to understand the extent to which the medical model of childbirth shapes teens' understandings and experiences of prenatal care, this paper analyzes in-depth interviews with 40 pregnant or parenting African American …
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Medicalization as a Trojan Horse: Changes in Erectile Enhancement Advertising
Medicalization as a Trojan Horse: Changes in Erectile Enhancement Advertising By Robert D Wood, M.S. A Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science at Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University, 2011 Major Director: Sarah …
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The medicalization of oral aesthetics: an application of structuration theory
Medicalization has been discussed at length in the sociology of health and illness literature. Typically, dialogue has centered on the effects of medicalization and the process as a phenomenon in professional fields alone. This work is an attempt to study medicalization using a theoretical model, …
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A Pill for the Ill? : Depression, Medicalization and Public Health
… of distress from pathological conditions. This medicalization of public health is believed to narrow the focus of public health practices. The aim of this thesis is twofold. The first objective is to describe and analyze experiences with antidepressant treatment for depression as expressed in …
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The Medicalization of the Body Politic in Contemporary Argentine Fiction
… it shows how Argentina's long tradition of medicalization is depicted and criticized. I conclude that in response to the totalizing discourse of medicine used by the military, novels and films re-appropriate its uses and metaphors, thereby subverting official versions of history. The …
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Redefining mental illness: medicalization, mental healthcare, and Morita Therapy, 1868-1938
… psychiatric healthcare in the prewar period; the medicalization of nervous disorders and his interaction with the larger psychiatric community demonstrates how Japanese psychiatrists attempted to take part in the international discourse on mental health and wellness.
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Runners, Biters, and Chair Throwers: Discourses of Order and Medicalization in Inclusion
<p>Inclusive leaders find that one of their greatest challenges is helping their schools to work with students regarded as acting disorderly, or having emotional or behavioral disorders. In this study, superintendents, special education directors, and principals in five districts in the Northeast …
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Medicalization in the news media: A comparison of AIDS coverage in three newspapers
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Points of Refusal: An Arts-Based Exploration of the Medicalization of Mad Trans Identity
This project discusses the impact of medicalization on transgender identity, examining how it enforces transphobic, white, abled, sane, cisgender, patriarchal norms, and effectively eugenics. By incorporating crip and trans theory, art, and embracing a mad aesthetic, I first highlight the concept …
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The Medicalization of Stress: Hans Selye and the Transformation of the Postwar Medical Marketplace
… In doing so, he appealed to the concurrent medicalization of anxiety and growing market for anxiolytic drugs, blurring the distinction between biological and psychological stress. Yet, he won validation for stress in the medical marketplace.</p> <p>Selye inadvertently advocated a …
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Medicalization and Mother-Blame: A Study in the Clinical Management of Deviance in Mexico
"Medicalization is a way of defining devalued personal and social conditions as ""illness"" and then subjecting them to medical labels and treatment. Medicalization has become an important method for managing deviance in the United States (Gabe & Calnan 1989), and one therefore wonders whether it …
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Managing the Medicalization of Madness: A Narrative Analysis of Personal Stories about Mental Illness Online
… and they have an influential role managing medicalization. The medicalization of madness is increasingly contested as people describe and explain how medical approaches and definitions of mental illness at best fail to adequately account for personal experiences of distress, and at worst are …
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The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis and the Medicalization of Late Ottoman Society, 1800–1922
<p>This dissertation examines how tuberculosis (TB) became a “social disease” (<em>maraz-ı ictimâʻî</em> ) in the late Ottoman Empire. Focusing on the period from the early 19th century to the aftermath of World War I, it traces how Ottoman doctors, reformers, and public health advocates …
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The Looping Effects of Grief Classifications: Public Discourses Behind the Screen
The medicalization of grief occurred when Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) was incorporated as a mental illness in the two most prominent diagnostic manuals. This inclusion is debated in the field, and some arguments against this diagnostic label emphasize grief is a normal human response to the …
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O discurso medicalizante do TDAH e suas implicações no processo de ensino e de aprendizagem no ensino médio
Medicalization is configured as the transformation of human characteristics, such as suffering, behavior and inattention, into pathologies. The school has become closer to medical concepts and adopted medicalizing practices for pedagogical issues. The contributions of HistoricalCultural Theory …
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医疗化进程在中国男性肾病类广告中的体现 = Medicalization and Chinese TV advertisements for male kidney disorder drugs
… Employing the framework of Peter Conrad’s social medicalization theory and the methodology of critical discourse analysis, the present research analyzed major advertisements of male kidney disorder on Chinese TV channels. It demonstrates that, by converting prescription drugs into nonprescription …
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Standing Trans Before the Law
… content analysis facilitated an understanding of medicalization in legal discourse while interviews sought to understand why trans people turn to the law, how they are represented before the law, and how their experience with the law shapes their understanding of justice. I interviewed 20 trans …
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Medicating the Crisis: Investigating the Links Between Precarious Employment, Mental Health Issues, and the Reliance on Antidepressants as Treatment
… doing so I provide an analysis of the process of medicalization, which locates mental health aetiology as primarily biochemical and focuses on medical, commodity-based interventions, specifically antidepressants, in response to illness experiences – where dis-ease becomes disease. My primary …
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Pure Immanence
… self-mutilation, mental illness, stigma, medicalization, public sphere, private sphere, pain theory.
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