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
There is a significant lack of evidence that cross-sex hormones and surgical procedures, such as mastectomies, that attempt to chemically and cosmetically alter biological sex are effective solutions to young women’s difficulties. Transgender medicalization is an experiment that might have dire consequences on the future of our children and society.
Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

Lisa  Shultz
I am against the rush to medicalize our children and young people to present as the opposite sex when they are confused or when other conditions such as autism are misattributed as trans.
Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

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