Talk:Medicalization

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...Medicalisation of Addiction? Addiction as a disease model?... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.6.100.68 (talk) 23:31, 29 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

Article is due for a rewrite. The areas designated as medicalized in medical sociology are nearly endless, but I think addiction should be included in a revised version. It will be a couple of weeks before I can start in on this article properly. Any help would be welcome. FiachraByrne 01:15, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

I think there may be scope for distinguishing narrow definition from broader implication. The narrow definition offered (quantifying social, cultural or other non-medical phenomena with diagnoses) almost covers the topic. Is there s a broader sense in which medicalization applies at a conceptual or institutional level.^[1] Does enterprise value-add their products by using the prefix medical to boost sales? Is there a critical sense in which medicalization applies to imperialism by the profession? Tradimus (talk) 04:54, 31 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

This article needs an overhaul. Anyone want to discuss/debate the issues?

82.2.75.224 (talk) 12:24, 6 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

Drapetomania and homosexuality used to be medical illnesses. I would like to make a chart of the discovery of the medical illness and its current status as voted into existence in the DSM Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Vice and Virtue, too much or too little?

1 Lust Chastity https://aeon.co/essays/can-women-s-lost-libido-be-fixed-with-mere-drugs

2 Gluttony Temperance: http://brainposts.blogspot.ca/2010/09/neurocircuitry-of-anorexia-nervosa.html

3 Greed Charity : Still not a medical illness, still a sin

4 Sloth Diligence http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dbs-new-promise-of-relief-for-major-depression/

5 Wrath Patience https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-act-violence/201301/the-psychology-road-rage

6 Envy Kindness : Still not a medical illness, still a sin

7 Pride Humility : http://psychcentral.com/encyclopedia/2008/delusion-of-grandeur/

--Mark v1.0 (talk) 12:22, 20 December 2015 (UTC)Reply

2620:72:0:9999:A413:6974:168:BE77 (talk) 18:26, 21 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

The information needs to be updated and please provide page numbers so the information is easier to fact check. M0318 (talk) 18:23, 6 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

The "Areas" feels like a WP:UNDUE violation as it gives heavy attention to antipsychiatric viewpoints all throughout and doesn't mention any other branch of medicine at all and feels like nothing more than a rant using other people's voices. CheckSuruWayo (talk) 11:33, 31 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

Medicalization as a term is more often used in (anti-)psychiatric settings because medicalization within medical settings has 1. received less attention and 2. overwhelmingly lacks the political connotations often associated with the term medicalization. Needless to say, examples of potentially (over-)medicalized medical conditions include hypertension or pre-diabetes. Examples for medicalization problems that lack clear medical etiology in the first place are things like fibromyalgia. Confirmatores (talk) 17:56, 5 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

This section has a lot of unsourced material, some dating back to edits from 2005 (the paragraph on "paramedicalization" in particular). Shouldn't this just be deleted? Palehose5 (talk) 13:30, 23 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Yeah, the lack of sourcing is bad... and this article is quite important at the moment for society at large - and perennially for those experiencing complicated interactions with the medical system.

I guess I'd prefer to find good sources and expand the section, the current content might be a good jumping off point (if only to find sources saying the exact opposite of what the article says).

The concept of how you can understanding the world through a non-medical (but still scientific) lens is particularly interesting to me, alternative medicine rather less so. You do have some interesting things in terms of patient advocacy groups and patients interacting with onen another.

I don't really have any good argument against deletion... the result will probably just be that you force me to find sources addressing the topics because planning is hard :D Talpedia (talk) 15:44, 23 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Okay I think I'm with you on paramedicalization: feels a bit niche. It's a shame... because I was quite interested in the concept. It might exist under a different name. Talpedia (talk) 19:10, 23 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. I don't know anything about this topic really, but I see paragraphs of unsourced content and it raises some alarms. Palehose5 (talk) 19:26, 23 September 2022 (UTC)---Reply

This looks interesting. It'd be good if there was a bunch of literature and not just one source. Not sure if this belongs in an article on the response to covid of here.

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/775403

Talpedia 12:57, 13 May 2023 (UTC)Reply