Medicalize me: Experts look at how our perceptions of illness are shaped
Medicalize me:...Experts look at how our perceptions of illness are shaped by drug ads, patient empowerment, and more ... ... These questions and more are the focus of a set of probing essays in a special section of the Feb. 24 issue of the journal The Lancet, all addressing the topic of medicaliza...New study reports the risk perceptions of natural vs 'medicalized' childbirth
Women were kept isolated in small rooms. Their arms were strapped down. Doctors were often methodically cold. And, upon the delivery, babies were swept away to isolation in a nursery. Much of this has changed. But, some would argue, there still remain many vestiges of this "medicalized" approach to childbirth--a paradigm that is being challenged by more natural, drug-free options like home birth,...