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: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
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
“ The biggest decision of a young person’s life, to present themselves as the opposite sex, needs time and thorough investigation of the root causes prompting the request for drastic measures of drugs and permanent surgery to remove healthy body parts. ”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

Adolfo Bioy Casares
“ Well then, maybe it would b e worth mentioning the three periods of history. When man believed that happiness was dependent upon God, he killed for religious reasons. When man believed that happiness was dependent upon the form of government, he killed for political reasons. After dreams that were too long, true nightmares .... we arrived at the present period of history. Man woke up, discovered that which he always knew, that happiness is dependent upon health, and began to kill for therapeutic ...more ”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, A Plan for Escape

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