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 ...

Suppose there was someone who's perfectly healthy, just stressed, or worried, or or unhappy. And suppose that, for whatever reason, they go see their doctor about their problems, they get a diagnosis ...

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 ...

Got the blues? Here's a pill. Not happy with the shape of your belly? A tummy tuck will fix that. Want to schedule the date of your healthy baby's birth? A scalpel will be waiting. Thirty-five years ...

New and expanded medical definitions have turned a staggering number of people in recent years into patients who are told they need treatment, usually with prescription drugs. As reporters John Fauber ...

In Great Britain, for example, some 2-5 percent of school-aged children are now identified as having ADHD — a figure that’s up from less than 1 percent in the 1990s. Independent news needs you.

James: Let me tell you something, you're prediabetic. In this bit, James suggests that medicalization has gone too far, and I tend to agree with him. However, medicalization isn't inherently bad; it's ...

International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Vol. 44, No. 3 (September 2018), pp. 101-109 (9 pages) CONTEXT: Medicalization of female genital cutting (i.e., having the procedure done ...

The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montréal presents Imperfect Health: the Medicalization of Architecture, on view in the main galleries which started on October 15th and is up until April 1, ...