"To what extent is the routine prescription of antidepressants really intended to treat depression, and to what extent is it about facilitating social control via biochemical means?"
David Huges
#medicalization
♿️ The #Paralympics began as rehab—but who stayed in control?
A new #Socius study by Evan T. Baughman shows how #Medicalization fueled the rise of the Games—while limiting #AthleteVoice and #DisabilityRights.
Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
Just published commentary shows how expanding definitions of diseases such as #hypertension, gestational #diabetes, #osteoporosis, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder & social #anxiety disorder can result in harmful #medicalization & inefficient resource use.
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Another great episode. This one on #medicalization explained and examined in an easy to understand way. #sociology
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I've just finished "The Age of Diagnosis" by Suzanne O'Sullivan.
The author, an Irish neurologist, claims that we are becoming the victims of overdiagnosis and overmedicalization.
Overdiagnosis - a term with which I was not not hitherto familiar - "refers to a diagnosis that is correct […]
4/15 Medicalization pushes community and Indigenous knowledge aside. Australia exemplifies this: psilocybin and MDMA available only through expensive prescriptions, raising equity questions about who can access these therapies and under what conditions.
#Medicalization #HealthEquity
How does one reconcile that he is for spiritual access and not #decriminalizaiton? Only way to counter act the industry influence is to also make the substances #decriminalized. It doesn't mean a free for all. #Medicalization and #decriminalization can co-exist nicely!
#EthicsSectionWinkler @ #AEM2024 @aem-online.bsky.social
Sascha Settegast: #Medicalization Risks in #Genomic #Newborn #Screening. 👶🧬
#Medizinethik #MedicalEthics #gNBS #AEM
More information on NEW_LIVES:
www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/en/new-lives...
There's just so much here to think about WRT to historical processes of #ableism #medicalization, the ways in which accusations of #malingering shape social welfare policy, the #FearOfTheDisabilityCon, and the remarkable endurance of these structures diachronically.
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