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- Title
Can medicalization be good? Situating medicalization within bioethics.
- Authors
John Sadler; Fabrice Jotterand; Simon Lee; Stephen Inrig
- Abstract
Abstract Medicalization has been a process articulated primarily by social scientists, historians, and cultural critics. Comparatively little is written about the role of bioethics in appraising medicalization as a social process. The authors consider what medicalization means, its definition, functions, and criteria for assessment. A series of brief case sketches illustrate how bioethics can contribute to the analysis and public policy discussion of medicalization.
- Publication
Theoretical Medicine & Bioethics, 2009, Vol 30, Issue 6, p411
- ISSN
1386-7415
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1007/s11017-009-9122-4