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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"and medicalization"”.
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Runners, Biters, and Chair Throwers: Discourses of Order and Medicalization in Inclusion
… superintendents, special education directors, and principals in five districts in the Northeast who have been previously identified as inclusive leaders were interviewed and observed to document the discourses they promote and are themselves regulated by as they meet this challenge. They …
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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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A discursive model of gendered social control: The case of battered women
… of domestic violence: a social service discourse and a feminist discourse. Two arguments are made. First, there will be a coherence between discourse and the program agendas offered at domestic violence shelters, a coherence between discourse or program agenda and organizational variables, and a …
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Separate but Equal? A Postmodern Analysis of Educational Structures for Individuals with Disabilities
… context of schooling in terms of class, gender, and race, the impact of disability as a social category has been absent from the field. In this work, postmodern analysis is applied to the concept of disability in field of education; first, in terms of the nature and effects of the practices …
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Beyond the asylum: Colonial psychiatry in French Indochina, 1880-1940
… product of everyday exchanges between lay people and experts. Drawing on archival research conducted over two years in Vietnam and France - including hundreds of patient case files - I trace the movements of patients in and out of asylums and between prisons, poor houses, youth reformatories, …
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Race Matters: Towards a Structural Understanding of the Management of Attention Hyperactivity Deficit Disorder in Black Adolescents
… from racial/ethnic disparities in diagnosis and treatment of ADHD, health care service utilization, health behaviors, structural racism and medicalization, this study examines the health behavior and health care utilization practices of Black people, analyzing the avenues through which racism …
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Parched: The Queer Alcoholic on the Modern American Stage, 1940-1970
… mines the rich correlation between queerness and alcoholism on the modern American stage. It explores the peculiar seductions of the queer alcoholic via readings of six plays from American dramatic literature: Eugene O’Neill’s "The Iceman Cometh" (1946) and "Long Day’s Journey Into Night" …
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Intimate Deathscapes: Examining Alternative Discourses of the Dead Body and Death Care Spaces
… process of defeminization, professionalization, and medicalization. It has also grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry and is now facing criticism for practices that are financially exploitive, environmentally harmful, and contribute to the invisibilization of death. Over the last decade, …
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Does an antenatal educational programme decrease adverse pregnancy outcomes among obese pregnant women? A feasibility study in Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
… with a wide range of health risks for the mother and new- born (Poston et al, 2011). Investigations and research about the incidence of obesity during pregnancy and its outcomes has not previously been investigated in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The aim of this study was to explore the …
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A Sociological Analysis of Premenstrual Syndrome.
… discomfort, depression, mood changes, and irritability in conjunction with menstruation which has been termed Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS). Prior to the creation of the disease/disorder category PMS, disorders with similar symptoms like “hysteria” and “involutional melancholia” were …