فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

The term medicalization often originates from the critique of modern medicine in the 1960s and 1970s by Ivan Ilyich, Michel Foucault, Thomas Sézés, and others. According to the literature on this topic, some of the most important examples of medicalized phenomena include shyness, grief, love, addiction, death, poverty, aging, pregnancy, menopause, childbirth, infant feeding, sexual function, temperament, child behavior, race, criminality, beauty, and baldness. The main question in the following article is how to analyze medicalization in the context of ethical issues and, more precisely, to speak of ethical and unethical medicalization or the ethical imperatives of medicalization and to propose criteria or measures for it? If so, what are these criteria and how do they look? In this article, by explaining that medicalization has degrees and also the possibility of distinguishing positive from negative medicalization, based on the factors and contexts of this phenomenon, an attempt is made to propose an ethical framework for medicalization by proposing four criteria.