The 53 countries of the European Region approved a new value-and evidence-based
health policy framework for the Region, Health 2020, at the session of the WHO Regional …

Social deviance refers to actions or behaviours that violate social norms. Since the
declassification of homosexuality and development of DSM-III, one of the aims of a definition …

Medicalization analyses have roots in sociology and have critical usefulness for
understanding contemporary health issues including the 'post-2015 global health agenda' …

Background: Medicalization has been a topic of discussion and research for over four
decades. It is a known concept to researchers from a broad range of disciplines …

The concept of overdiagnosis is a dominant topic in medical literature and discussions. In
research that targets overdiagnosis, medicalisation is often presented as the societal and …

Medicalization is frequently defined as a process by which some non-medical aspects of
human life become to be considered as medical problems. Overdiagnosis, on the other …

Medicalization appears to be an issue that is both ubiquitous and unquestionably
problematic as it seems to signal at once a social and existential threat. This perception of …

Despite the 2013 decision to replace the diagnostic labelling of gender identity disorder with
gender dysphoria, there remains wide consensus amongst scholars that transgender …

Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) have been identified as a health policy target, due to
their associations with weight gain. However, fatness or 'obesity'is associated with stigma …

Sažetak In this paper, my goal is to use an epistemic injustice framework to extend an
existing normative analysis of over-medicalization to psychiatry and thus draw attention to …