Sentence examples for on medicalization from inspiring English sources

(Some argue that insuring more people through Obamacare could drive up health-care costs, because it would encourage more patients and providers to spend unnecessarily on medicalization; we believe, however, that the health-care system is already absorbing many of the costs of dealing with uninsured people's health, and that this just makes it official).

A different slant on embodiment is provided by the existing and growing body of feminist work on medicalization, particularly the medicalization of non-standard embodiments or embodied states and their classification as pathologies, and the questions of autonomy and choice that such medicalization raises (Purdy 2001, 2006; Garry 2001).

As the metaphoric landscape of palliative care shifts and the field matures within a broader context of technological and scientific advances aimed at prolonging and enhancing quality of life [ 2], palliative care is increasingly concentrated on medicalization [ 3].

The previous research on medicalization of birth, as well as routine obstetric interventions such a using epidural analgesia report a need for further research for possible severe adverse events, and increased rate of intervention [ 4- 6].

The review indicated that women with T1DM experienced a variety of psychosocial issues in their transition to motherhood: increased levels of anxiety, diabetes-related distress, guilt, a sense of disconnectedness from health professionals, and a focus on medicalization of pregnancy rather than the positive transition to motherhood.

In three subsequent articles I build on these insights, drawing on sociological theories of medicalization to examine three contemporary issues on the current global health agenda – global mental health movement (Paper 2) (40), non-communicable disease agenda (Paper 3) (41), and the universal health coverage campaign (Paper 4) (42).

Patients and methods: The study was conducted using the French database on hospitalizations (Program of Medicalization of Information Systems).

Recent work on the medicalization of sleep and non-medical uses of modafinil has linked the acceptability of pharmacological enhancements to the context of use [ 64].

The news stories will claim it was an overdose of a medication, but that's not the whole story: his death came from our collective overdose on the medicalization of chronic pain.

She received a 2013 Academic Writing Residency at the Bellagio Center from the Rockefeller Foundation in support of her work on the medicalization of global health.

Cases examined in this series on the Medicalization of Global Health (8) include: the global mental health movement (this paper), the non-communicable diseases agenda (10), and the universal health coverage campaign (11).