What good is it to say "eat right" to someone who can't afford nutritious food? Or whose neighborhood doesn't have a supermarket? These were among the questions raised by Maurizio Trevisan, dean of ...

Autism children and parents enjoy a Halloween-style fall festival Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, at Carrie Fitts Real Estate in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Gary Cosby Jr.-Tuscaloosa News / Two weeks ago, a team of ...

Do prescription drug ads make people think they're sick when they're not, or create "disease" out of thin air? Does the "empowered patient" movement mean that doctors have lost some of their ...

Based on: The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders By Peter Conrad. 204 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. $40 (cloth); $20 ...

The term "medicalization" was popularized by the Catholic philosopher and social critic Ivan Illich. Illich was troubled by the way in which what was formerly regarded as deviant behavior had come to ...

Most psychedelic advocates picture a future where the drug war is over and people are free to responsibly use a number of currently illicit substances for healing, personal growth, or simple ...

Waltham, MA -- Over the past half-century, the social terrain of health and illness has been transformed. What were once considered normal human events and common human problems—birth, aging, ...