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I'm not saying we shouldn't question what doctors want to do and why, to accept passively the upswing in medicalized births.

A, B, C-Section kittenpie 2008

I'm not saying we shouldn't question what doctors want to do and why, to accept passively the upswing in medicalized births.

Archive 2008-08-01 kittenpie 2008

The researchers, led by Brandeis sociologist Peter Conrad, evaluated 12 conditions that had been defined as medicalized by physician organizations, and for which there were current medical spending data.

Latest Articles Brandeis University 2010

The medical term used to label this (and shortness is indeed 'medicalized') is idiopathic short stature (ISS), or shortness with no known cause.

Trisha Gura: The Short End of the Stick 2009

Aren't we headed toward a 100 percent 'medicalized' society in which nobody is responsible, and everybody is a victim of one unfortunate feature of their background or another nature or nurture?

Archive 2008-02-01 josh 2008

Aren't we headed toward a 100 percent 'medicalized' society in which nobody is responsible, and everybody is a victim of one unfortunate feature of their background or another nature or nurture?

Will neuroscience end responsibility? josh 2008

However meditation and mindfulness programs have become more "medicalized", teaching skills such as paying attention and controlling emotions without showing obvious religious trappings.

Archive 2007-07-01 Howard M. Friedman 2007

Minor, normal problems, such as the symptoms of menopause, have been "medicalized" into treatable illnesses, and risk factors like high cholesterol are being treated as diseases in their own right.

Medicalizing " Disease " For Fun And Profit 2006

Many medical authorities viewed the procedures as unnecessarily expensive and risky, and advocates of "natural childbirth" saw them as turning a natural experience into a "medicalized" one.

Archive 2006-03-01 Ann Althouse 2006

Maynard destabilizes "medicalized" histories of Victorian sexuality by arguing that religion and sexuality were inextricably linked in the Victorian imagination--indeed, that religious language opened up new vistas for imagining sexual experience and vice-versa.

Kaleidoscopic and domestic 2005