Medicalization


Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning Us All into Patients
Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis
The Spectacular Generic: Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)
War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)
Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
Harmony
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
Invisible Monsters
The Beauty Myth
Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex
How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States
Lessons from the Intersexed
Lisa  Shultz
My experience as a parent whose young adult daughter needed time, exploration of treatment options, and healing of multiple issues but instead clambered aboard the medicalized trans train has led me to feel like I’m in a tortured dream state.
Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

My contention is that the psychiatric perspective on homosexuality is but a thinly disguised replica of the religious perspective which it displaced, and that efforts to 'treat' this kind of conduct medically are but thinly disguised methods for suppressing it. ...more
Thomas S. Szasz, The Manufacture of Madness: a Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement

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