Sökning: "Medicalization"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 27 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Medicalization.
1. A Pill for the Ill? : Depression, Medicalization and Public Health
Sammanfattning : Mental disorders, especially depression, have been increasingly described as a growing burden to global public health. Critics argue, however, that the use of mental health surveys, underlying these descriptions, tends to overestimate the prevalence of mental disorders by not distinguishing everyday experiences of distress from pathological conditions. LÄS MER
2. Att (åter)skapa "det normala" : Bröstoperationer och brännskador i plastikkirurgisk praktik
Sammanfattning : This PhD dissertation explores how the normal is made and remade in the medical practice of plastic surgery. The thesis also question what "the normal" is that is remade. The empirical field is breast reconstruction, breast reduction, and burn injuries. LÄS MER
3. Hemligheternas värld: Bror Gadelius och psykiatrins genombrott i det tidiga 1900-talets Sverige
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to examine the transformation of psychiatry in Sweden in the early 20th century. At the turn of the century, 1800–1900, a form of psychiatry appeared that in many aspects sought to differentiate itself from the discipline as it had emerged during the previous century. LÄS MER
4. Läkaren, döden och brottet : Studier i den svenska rättsmedicinens etablering
Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the long historical process leading up to the establishment of Swedish forensic medicine in the middle of the 19th century. Both the development of the practice of investigating suspicious deaths, primarily through autopsies, and the scientific development, leading up to the founding of forensic medicine as a medical discipline and a distinct field of knowledge are dealt with. LÄS MER
5. Vård för samhällets bästa : Debatten om tvångsvård i svensk lagstiftning 1850–1970
Sammanfattning : How does a state justify forcing its citizens to receive health care? This study analyses how the use of coercive care was treated in Swedish legislation 1850–1970. By focusing on the compulsory care of those who did not break any laws, the arguments for and against state intervention are examined. LÄS MER
