How to distinguish medicalization from over-medicalization?
| Autor: | Kaczmarek, Emilia |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Health (social science)
Social Values Health Promotion Medical Overuse Medical law Unnecessary Procedures Boundaries of medicine 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Over-medicalization Education 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Phenomenon Medicalization Humans Mass Screening 030212 general & internal medicine Normative analysis Sociology Philosophy Medical Moral evaluation of medicalization Pragmatic approach Health Policy 06 humanities and the arts Bioethics Scientific Contribution Epistemology Philosophy of biology Philosophy of medicine Preventive Medicine 060301 applied ethics Guiding questions |
| Zdroj: | Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy |
| ISSN: | 1572-8633 1386-7423 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11019-018-9850-1 |
| Popis: | Is medicalization always harmful? When does medicine overstep its proper boundaries? The aim of this article is to outline the pragmatic criteria for distinguishing between medicalization and over-medicalization. The consequences of considering a phenomenon to be a medical problem may take radically different forms depending on whether the problem in question is correctly or incorrectly perceived as a medical issue. Neither indiscriminate acceptance of medicalization of subsequent areas of human existence, nor criticizing new medicalization cases just because they are medicalization can be justified. The article: (i) identifies various consequences of both well-founded medicalization and over-medicalization; (ii) demonstrates that the issue of defining appropriate limits of medicine cannot be solved by creating an optimum model of health; (iii) proposes four guiding questions to help distinguish medicalization from over-medicalization. The article should foster a normative analysis of the phenomenon of medicalization and contribute to the bioethical reflection on the boundaries of medicine. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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