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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 3.87 — 424 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 — 4 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 — 591 ratings — published 1974
Harmony (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,486 ratings — published 2008
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,749 ratings — published 1997
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 4.00 — 150,246 ratings — published 1999
The Beauty Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 3.91 — 30,720 ratings — published 1990
Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 4.13 — 69 ratings — published 2003
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 4.15 — 230 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 — 495 ratings — published 2002
Lessons from the Intersexed (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as medicalization)
avg rating 4.09 — 79 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
“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
