Here's a question that's not being asked in the health care debate: How much medical care do we want in our lives? It's something we should be discussing. Start with the two life events we all ...

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 ...

The "medicalization" of drug addiction is a worrying trend, one doctor argues. May 20, 2011— -- In my specialty as an addiction psychiatrist, I have often advocated for residential treatment when ...

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. … but our independent ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was sorry to see the Thursday headline out of Idaho that they had banned some endocrine treatments and elective, cosmetic surgeries for minors (“Idaho governor signs bill criminalizing ...

This article reports qualitative data on how the Swedish Public Employment Service classifies unemployed individuals as 'occupationally disabled' in order to transfer them to various labour market ...