| The driving force, and substantial beneficiary, of this mass medicalisation is of course the pharmaceutical industry, or Big Pharma as it has pejoratively become known. |
| 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. |
| On the other hand, other research suggests that there has been a trend towards milder forms of FGC in countries where medicalisation is apparent. |
| The medicalisation of modern society has already deskilled many other professions and led patients into an unhealthy dependence on medical care. |
| In contrast, the increasing medicalisation of smoking cessation implies that it needs to be pharmacologically mediated. |
