In this article, I explore how medical care responsibilities in the United States are shifting
away from formal clinical contexts and into the home. Using organ transplant-related care as …

The term medicalization in the studies by Illich and Foucault was analyzed, in order to
provide conceptual tools for studying movements that contest medicalization. Illich …

Es war 2010, als Brigitte, die führende sogenannte Frauenzeitschrift in Deutschland,
professionelle Models von ihren Seiten verbannte und stattdessen› echte Frauen‹ …

Drawing on the recent concussion litigation from the United States' National Football League
(NFL), the paper examines the emergence of neuroscience knowledge as part of a defining …

Yhteiskunnallinen keskustelu terveysriskeistä kohdistuu nykyään yhä enemmän erilaisiin
elämäntapoihin. Tämän myötä monia sairauksia ja ongelmia on ryhdytty kutsumaan jopa …

The general aim of this paper is to provide insight into the relevance of critical
phenomenology for the study of the patient-provider relationship in health care systems in …

Stamatopoulou-Robbins's essay begins with an unlikely meeting between two groups—
Israeli settlers and Palestinian village residents—who together opposed construction of a …

Colonial medicine refers to the imposition of Western medicine in the colonies of European
and United States empires across Africa, the Americas, parts of Asia, Oceania, and Australia …

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PATOLOGIZACIÓN INTENSIVA EN TÉRMINOS DE DERECHOS HUMANOS: ACTIVISMO …

Deep-seated ageist beliefs would have us take for granted that 'sexy expires', in the words of
poet Leanne Simpson. According to this logic, as bodies age they become less attractive …