Medicalization was seen as the most significant limitation of professional practice.
Rebeca Nunes Guedes, Rosa Maria Godoy Serpa da Fonseca, Emiko Yoshikawa Egry 2013, 'Limites e possibilidades avaliativas da estratégia saúde da família para a violênciade gênero Límites y posibilidades de evaluación de la estrategia salud de la familiapara la violencia de género The evaluative limits and possibilities in the familyhealth strategy for gender-based violence', Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USPhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0080-62342013000200005. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This yielded 13,100 collocates that were rated for negativity and medicalization.
Reuben Ng, Heather G. Allore, Mark Trentalange, Joan K. Monin, Becca R. Levy 2015, 'Increasing Negativity of Age Stereotypes across 200 Years: Evidence from a Databaseof 400 Million Words', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0117086. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Some examples were chosen to illustrate the intensification of the medicalization process.
José Augusto Cabral Barros 2008, 'Nuevas tendencias de la medicalización New tendencies in medicalization', Ciência & Saúde Coletivahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-81232008000700007. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
They represent an alternative to medicalization, promoting self-management of health.
Isabel Morales-Moreno, Maravillas Giménez-Fernández, Paloma Echevarría-Pérez 2015, 'The cultural dialogue on the domestic dimension of care to immigrant caregivers inSpain', Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagemhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-11692015000500821&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This may contribute to a questionable medicalization and/or pharmaceuticalization of depression.
Andreas Vilhelmsson, Tommy Svensson, Anna Meeuwisse 2013, 'A Pill for the Ill? Patients' Reports of Their Experience of the Medical Encounterin the Treatment of Depression.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3688884?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The concept of medicalization can then be replaced with medicalizations (plural).
Tiago Correia 2017, 'Revisiting Medicalization: A Critique of the Assumptions of What Counts As MedicalKnowledge', Frontiers in Sociologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fsoc.2017.00014/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
I argue, further, that we should move away from the medicalization of dying.
Stoyles 2014, 'End-of-Life Decisions and Advanced Old Age', BioéthiqueOnlinehttp://bioethiqueonline.ca/3/6. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
After that, we discuss some positive and negative aspects of medicalization.
Fabíola Stolf Brzozowski, Sandra Noemi Cucurullo de Caponi 2013, 'Medicalização dos desvios de comportamento na infância: aspectos positivos e negativosMedicalización de los desvíos de comportamiento en la infancia: aspectos positivosy negativos Medicalization of deviant behavior in children: positive and negativefeatures', Psicologia: Ciência e Profissãohttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1414-98932013000100016. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)