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 3.87 — 429 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 4.50 — 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 4.43 — 51 ratings — published
Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 4.04 — 621 ratings — published 1974
Harmony (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,518 ratings — published 2008
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,766 ratings — published 1997
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 3.99 — 153,278 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 — 31,601 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 3.95 — 501 ratings — published 2002
Lessons from the Intersexed (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 4.10 — 80 ratings — published 1998
“Even when raised by a loving parent, a young adult may be influenced to the point of hopping on the fast-moving trans train and leaving the loving family behind.”
― The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology
― The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology
“I will ask over and over until I die why doctors, therapists, school educators, and counselors are not looking deeply at the individual in front of them and creating a treatment plan with options that heal trauma, offer tools and adaptive coping strategies to navigate their emotional life, and address underlying mental issues before placing that young person on a rapid medicalization pathway that ignores complex dynamics of their personality and experiences.”
― The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology
― The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology
