Medicalization means an expansion of the medical institution and reviewing deviance and all the processes of human life from a medical perspective.
Irvin K. Zola is the father of the concept. In the medicalization process the power of medicine extends to before non-medical areas, there are ever more diagnoses.
The concept can be determined in many ways. Usually social scientists talk about medicalization considering the status of medicine: doctors control people. In a narrower sense medicalization means that human decisions (both on a personal and a common level) increasingly rest on health consciousness.
As an antithesis for medicalization there is the process of paramedicalization: emphasis on health beliefs outside medicine is increasing. Even if medicalization and paramedicalization are contradictory, they also feed each other: they both ensure, that the questions of health and illness stay in sharp focus.
External links
[1] (http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/tsph/health/society/medicalisation.html) - Public site conserning medicalization (by Markku Myllykangas and Raimo Tuomainen, Kuopio, Finland)
Medical humanities includes the humanities (literature, philosophy, ethics, history and religion), social science (anthropology, cultural studies, psychology, sociology), and the arts (literature, theater, film, and visual arts) and their application to medical education and practice.
Medical education is education related to the practice of being a medical practitioner, either the initial training to become a doctor or further training thereafter.
Medical education and training varies considerably across the world, however typically involves entry level education at a universitymedicalschool, followed by a period of supervised practise (Internship and/or Residency) and possibly postgraduate vocational training.
A medical malpractice Lawyer is an area of law that assists people who have been injured by the mistakes of health care providers, or the survivors of those who may have died as a result of the mistakes of health care providers.
Malpractice can be described as departure from the accepted standards of medical care, health care or safety on the part of a health care provider that causes harm resulting in death or serious injuries to a patient.
A standard of conduct is what the "reasonable practitioner" would do in like circumstances and requires that the physician exercise that degree of skill and care that would be expected of the average qualified practitioner practicing under like circumstances.
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