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The cost of medicalizing human conditions

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Menopause. Normal pregnancy. Infertility. ADHD. Erectile dysfunction. Over the last several decades, these conditions have come to be defined and treated as medical problems. They've been 'medicalized.' In the first study of its kind in the current issue of Social Science and Medicine, Brandeis researchers ...

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