Autism children and parents enjoy a Halloween-style fall festival Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, at Carrie Fitts Real Estate in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Gary Cosby Jr.-Tuscaloosa News / Two weeks ago, a team of ...

Explore the medicalization of mental health and its implications, including how SSRIs might change public perception of treatment. Suppose there was someone who's perfectly healthy, just stressed, or ...

Michelle Newhart (PhDSoc’13) and her husband’s book, titled The Medicalization of Marijuana: Legitimacy, Stigma, and the Patient Experience, takes a comprehensive look at how patients negotiate ...

The term "medicalization" was popularized by the Catholic philosopher and social critic Ivan Illich. Illich was troubled by the way in which what was formerly regarded as deviant behavior had come to ...

I was sorry to see the Thursday headline out of Idaho that they had banned some endocrine treatments and elective, cosmetic surgeries for minors (“Idaho governor signs bill criminalizing ...

This article critically examines the proliferation of information on the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination as integral to contemporary processes of medicalization that take the young female body ...

Vol. 3, No. 3, Special Issue: Health, Illness and Medicine in the Media (July 1999), pp. 317-333 (17 pages) Published By: Sage Publications, Ltd. This article examines the depiction of lay people ...

When journalist and professor Rachel Somerstein had an emergency C-section with her first child, the anesthesia didn't work. She says she could literally feel the operation as it was happening. Later, ...

The future of the beauty industry is looking increasingly clinical. Amid age-old quests to preserve youthful-looking skin and more recent fascinations with all things wellness, beauty consumers are ...

When 13-year-old Malika from a dusty village outside Cairo, Egypt turned eleven, her mother took her to the doctor late at night. It was not until she saw the blood and heard the cries from the other ...

Pregnant women and new mothers are terrified that they might pass coronavirus to their infants. It’s a justified fear; if they are infected at the time of birth, they might need to be separated from ...