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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 — 426 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 — 601 ratings — published 1974
Harmony (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,498 ratings — published 2008
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,756 ratings — published 1997
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 4.00 — 151,746 ratings — published 1999
The Beauty Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 3.91 — 31,083 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 — 234 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 — 500 ratings — published 2002
Lessons from the Intersexed (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 4.10 — 80 ratings — published 1998
“In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the Medical Empire. But in reality, it seems that these reductionist bio-medical stories can appeal to us all, because complex problems often have depressingly-complex causes, and the solutions can be taxing, and unsatisfactory.”
― Bad Science
― Bad Science
“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.”
― The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology
― The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology
