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0712/2011 - Medicalization of Life: Ethics, Public Health and Pharmaceutical Industry
Medicalização da Vida: Ética, Saúde Pública e Indústria Farmacêutica

Author:

• Monique Araújo de Brito - Brito, M. A. - Niterói, RJ - Universidade Federal Fluminense - <MONIQUEBRITO@ID.UFF.BR>

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Abstract:

Medicalization is a phenomenon by which everyday life is medically appropriate and interferes with the construction of concepts, customs and social behaviors. The question of ethics is particularly at a time of discussion in Brazil, coupled with the public health and allied to the topic of the pharmaceutical industry, allows important discussions. The organizers of "medicalization of Life: Ethics, Public Health and the Pharmaceutical Industry", Sandra Caponi, Martha Verdi, Fabiola S. Brzozowski and Fernando Hellmann present the book report "is the result of an interdisciplinary dialogue among researchers from different areas and regions around the problem of medicalization of life and ethical conflicts within the health research and the field of public health." Contrary to what may seem, does not consist in the medicalization process recently. It‘s taking place in society for over two centuries, during which he was earning several ways. We may note that as medicine is part of the social practices and discourses appropriated the medical rationale. From this point on, daily life becomes medicalized, since the citizen begins to be familiar with the medical widespread notions, designing health as a fundamental value and, consequently, do everything to preserve it or restore it.

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Medicalization of Life Ethics Public Health Pharmaceutical Industry Book Review

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Brito, M. A.. Medicalization of Life: Ethics, Public Health and Pharmaceutical Industry. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2011/Jun). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/medicalization-of-life-ethics-public-health-and-pharmaceutical-industry/7760



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