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Medicalización de la vida. «Etiquetas de enfermedad: todo un negocio.»

Western societies have displaced problems from the subjective and social fields over to medicine, and the search for the perfect health has become an obsession and a pathogenic predominant factor. Paradoxically, the number of ilnesses and sick people arises proportionally with health levels. We now...

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Autores principales: Cerecedo Pérez, María Jesús, Tovar Bobo, Margarita, Rozadilla Arias, Aurora
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6985480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24055130
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aprim.2013.04.014
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description Western societies have displaced problems from the subjective and social fields over to medicine, and the search for the perfect health has become an obsession and a pathogenic predominant factor. Paradoxically, the number of ilnesses and sick people arises proportionally with health levels. We now tend to add «disease labels» in daily clinical practice to behaviors and events that are nothing but elements of character or even healthy reactions to laboral and familial conflicts or mourning. In this article, we analyze the factors that determine this «medicalization» process and its consequences, with a particular emphasis in the iatrogenesis of unnecessary medical interventions.
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spelling pubmed-69854802020-01-30 Medicalización de la vida. «Etiquetas de enfermedad: todo un negocio.» Cerecedo Pérez, María Jesús Tovar Bobo, Margarita Rozadilla Arias, Aurora Aten Primaria Artículo especial Western societies have displaced problems from the subjective and social fields over to medicine, and the search for the perfect health has become an obsession and a pathogenic predominant factor. Paradoxically, the number of ilnesses and sick people arises proportionally with health levels. We now tend to add «disease labels» in daily clinical practice to behaviors and events that are nothing but elements of character or even healthy reactions to laboral and familial conflicts or mourning. In this article, we analyze the factors that determine this «medicalization» process and its consequences, with a particular emphasis in the iatrogenesis of unnecessary medical interventions. Elsevier 2013-10 2013-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6985480/ /pubmed/24055130 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aprim.2013.04.014 Text en © 2013 Elsevier España, S.L. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
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Tovar Bobo, Margarita
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title_full Medicalización de la vida. «Etiquetas de enfermedad: todo un negocio.»
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title_full_unstemmed Medicalización de la vida. «Etiquetas de enfermedad: todo un negocio.»
title_short Medicalización de la vida. «Etiquetas de enfermedad: todo un negocio.»
title_sort medicalización de la vida. «etiquetas de enfermedad: todo un negocio.»
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aprim.2013.04.014
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