Biomedicalization: Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine
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- 1 April 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by SAGE Publications in American Sociological Review
- Vol. 68 (2) , 161-194
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1519765
Abstract
The first social transformation of American medicine institutionally established medicine by the end of World War II. In the next decades, medicalization--the e...This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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