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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 3.87 — 433 ratings — published 2005
Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 3.77 — 30 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 4.50 — 6 ratings — published
War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 4.45 — 53 ratings — published
Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 4.05 — 636 ratings — published 1974
Harmony (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,543 ratings — published 2008
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,784 ratings — published 1997
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 3.99 — 154,707 ratings — published 1999
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 3.91 — 32,037 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 — 235 ratings — published 1998
How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 3.94 — 504 ratings — published 2002
Lessons from the Intersexed (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 4.10 — 81 ratings — published 1998
“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.”
― The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology
― The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology
“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.”
― The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology
― The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology