Medicalization and overdiagnosis: different but alike

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 253-264

  Hofmann, Bjørn ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Futile; Ideology; Medicalization; Overdiagnosis; Science; Unnecessary

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICALIZATION; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE;

DISEASE; HUMANS; MEDICAL OVERUSE; MEDICALIZATION; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 84959115821     PISSN: 13867423     EISSN: 15728633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-016-9693-6     Document Type: Article

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