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Medicalization Books
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Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning Us All into Patients (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as medicalization)
avg rating 3.88 — 427 ratings — published 2005
Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 3.79 — 29 ratings — published 1981
The Spectacular Generic: Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 4.60 — 5 ratings — published
War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 4.43 — 51 ratings — published
Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 4.04 — 596 ratings — published 1974
Harmony (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,487 ratings — published 2008
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,750 ratings — published 1997
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 4.00 — 150,824 ratings — published 1999
The Beauty Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 3.91 — 30,869 ratings — published 1990
Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 4.13 — 70 ratings — published 2003
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 4.15 — 231 ratings — published 1998
How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 3.95 — 498 ratings — published 2002
Lessons from the Intersexed (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 4.09 — 79 ratings — published 1998
“As a mom, I feel compelled to ask questions. Why are girls demanding the drug testosterone in skyrocketing numbers? Why are so many young girls and women getting mastectomies? What is happening when the young woman’s scarred mastectomy chest is glorified? Why is there a new industry profiting from removing any traces of femininity of our daughters? Why is this drastic medicalized trend rushed, creating a destructive trans train that roars fast and furious, ignoring the whole person, their history, and their family?”
― The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology
― The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology
“Asked again to peel back our scabs, to bare our festering places, hanging our heads over the blood. We were not asked who had cut us, or why the injuries went uncleaned.”
― The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders
― The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders
