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biomedicalization: a standalone construct

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Medical sociology

the technoscientific extension of medicalization in which biomedicine reshapes bodies, identities and health itself.

In medical sociology, biomedicalization refers to the technoscientific extension of medicalization in which biomedicine reshapes bodies, identities and health itself. This meaning comes from Clarke (2003) in American Sociological Review.[1]

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References

Clarke, A. E., Mamo, L., Fishman, J. R., Shim, J. K., & Fosket, J. R. (2003). Biomedicalization: Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine. American Sociological Review, 68(2), 161. https://doi.org/10.2307/1519765

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