The social construction of illness: Key insights and policy implications

P Conrad, KK Barker - Journal of health and social behavior, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
The social construction of illness is a major research perspective in medical sociology. This
article traces the roots of this perspective and presents three overarching constructionist …

Medicalization and social control

P Conrad - Annual review of Sociology, 1992 - annualreviews.org
This essay examines the major conceptual issues concerning medicalization and social
control, emphasizing studies published on the topic since 1980. Several issues are …

[图书][B] The medicalization of society: On the transformation of human conditions into treatable disorders

P Conrad - 2007 - torrossa.com
Come si intuisce dal titolo, l'argomento del volume è la medicalizzazione della società,
mentre il sottotitolo contiene già la tesi:“sulla trasformazione delle condizioni umane in …

An introduction to the sociology of health and illness

K White - 2016 - torrossa.com
Untitled Page 1 Page 2 SOCIOLOGY of HEALTH and ILLNESS An Introduction to the Page 3
In memory of my parents, William Stewart White and Margaret Ann White (née Doyle), and for …

Well-being, symptoms and the menopausal transition

L Dennerstein - Maturitas, 1996 - Elsevier
Objectives: This paper reviews the knowledge accumulated from published population
studies of health and ill-health experiences during the menopausal transition. Results: Well …

Estrogens and progestins: background and history, trends in use, and guidelines and regimens approved by the US Food and Drug Administration

ML Stefanick - The American journal of medicine, 2005 - Elsevier
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved marketing of diethylstilbestrol in
1941 and conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) in 1942 for treatment of menopausal …

Beyond medicalisation‐demedicalisation: the case of holistic health

JS Lowenberg, F Davis - Sociology of Health & Illness, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
Discourse relating to the dual processes of medicalisation and demedicalisation has
become deeply embedded in the sociological literature and increasingly in the cultural fabric …

Perceived change in quality of life during the menopause

G Mishra, D Kuh - Social science & medicine, 2006 - Elsevier
The directly attributable effect of menopausal transition on women's quality of life (QoL)
remains unclear. This study investigates the relationship between perceived change in QoL …

Psychological well-being, mid-life and the menopause

L Dennerstein, AMA Smith, C Morse - Maturitas, 1994 - Elsevier
Few studies of women's health in the menopausal years have formally assessed well being.
The present study aimed to determine whether well-being during mid-life related to …

Pathways to depressed mood for midlife women: observations from the Seattle Midlife Women's Health Study

NF Woods, ES Mitchell - Research in Nursing & Health, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this study was to develop and test a multidimensional model of depressed
mood experienced by women during midlife. Three pathways to depressed mood were …