The medicalisation of modern society has already deskilled many other professions and led patients into an unhealthy dependence on medical care. |
Early diagnosis of the disease might unleash a process of premature medicalisation. |
However, medicalisation of traumatic human suffering runs the risk of reducing it to a technical problem. |
The antidote to genetics as a driver of medicalisation lies in remaining sceptical and level headed. |
In the 21st century, medicalisation has become mainstream, even desirable. |
Minerva wonders why it's called a disorder at all, and whether this is another example of the medicalisation of normal human behaviour. |