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B Cameron Webb1, Dayna Bowen Matthew1
1B. Cameron Webb, M.D., J.D., is an Assistant Professor in the University of Virginia School of Medicine, where he is the Director of Health Policy and Equity for the Department of Public Health Sciences and a Hospitalist in the Department of Medicine. Dayna Bowen Matthew, J.D., Ph.D., is the William L. Matheson and Robert M. Morgenthau Distinguished Professor of Law and the F. Palmer Weber Research Professor of Civil Liberties and Human Rights at the University of Virginia School of Law. She holds an appointment in the School of Medicine's Department of Public Health Sciences.
Abstract:
"Medicalization" has been a contentious notion since its introduction centuries ago. While some scholars lamented a medical overreach into social domains, others hailed its promise for social justice advocacy. Against the backdrop of a growing commitment to health equity across the nation, this article reviews historical interpretations of medicalization, offers an application of the term to non-biologic risk factors for disease, and presents the case of housing the demonstrate the great potential of medicalizing poverty.
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