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Intro
Foreword
Preface
1 Medicalization and consent
What does "medical" mean?
Examples to consider
What is medicalization?
Considerations
2 Medicalization's roots: Zola &
Illich
Contextualizing medicalization
3 Happiness
Thinking about happiness
Rhetoric of medicine
Thinking about rhetoric
4 Efficacy, critical thinking, and credibility
Efficacy justifications of medicalization ("it is OK because it works")
Efficacy
Critical thinking
Considerations
Credibility
Whom to believe about which topic
5 Bioethics and medicalization
Autonomy
Justice
Beneficence
Bioethics as a strong public policy field
Bioethics Education
Disability rights
Bioethics considerations
6 Industry, regulations, and structures
Psychopharmaceutical industry growth
Regulatory contributions to medicalization
Considerations
Incentives and conflicts of interest
Thinking about political/economic systems
7 Informed consent
Informed refusal
Cyberspace
Reasons for consent
8 Society and sub-cultures
Granola197F200F
Global alternatives to psych
Seventh Day Adventists
Rich
Helicopter
Poor
Groups and their impact
9 The female body
Thinking about looks
Big naturals and labia envy
Girls and women
Medicalizing sex drive: Is low sex drive an abnormality?
Conflating
10 Eating: From food to Ozempic
Food for thought
Food culture and consent
How to challenge the system
11 Obesity as a disease: Drugs and informed consent
What would Ben think?
Drugs
Informed consent - clinical level
Oh, Oh, Oh Ozempic
Harm reduction: a weak justification for obesity drugs &
surgery340F345F
Harm reduction
Criteria for the ethical application of harm reduction
Harm reduction
Pediatric obesity367F373F.
Kid consumers
Bariatric surgery - incarcerated adults
Travel for tummy tucks
Considerations
12 Weird
Autism and medicalization of the geek/nerd and other groups
Autism spectrum disorder and introverted women
Autism spectrum disorder and kids
Autism spectrum disorder and gender
The autism business
A group wanting recognition and equality
Things to think about
13 Feelings
Sad
Facts and opinions
Nervous
The medicated mom
The nervous kid
Considerations
14 Distracted and inattentive497F504F
Conflict of interest and the numbers
DSM-5
Stimulants and extra time: Two sides of the same coin
Industries that disrupt attention
Neglecting the social causes, personal benefits, and realities of an array of behaviors
Personal opportunity costs
Resilience
Creativity
Diet and exercise
Home environment
Societal opportunity costs
Investment in play and free time
Class size
Teaching quality
Repairing the cutthroat nature of academics and college admissions
Conflicts of interest
Focusing on the mild at the expense of the severely mentally challenged
The problem with ADHD
Considerations
15 Slow
Considerations
16 Wrapping up
Factitious disorder imposed on another (by parents or the psych industries?)
Moving forward
Index
Acknowledgements.
Foreword
Preface
1 Medicalization and consent
What does "medical" mean?
Examples to consider
What is medicalization?
Considerations
2 Medicalization's roots: Zola &
Illich
Contextualizing medicalization
3 Happiness
Thinking about happiness
Rhetoric of medicine
Thinking about rhetoric
4 Efficacy, critical thinking, and credibility
Efficacy justifications of medicalization ("it is OK because it works")
Efficacy
Critical thinking
Considerations
Credibility
Whom to believe about which topic
5 Bioethics and medicalization
Autonomy
Justice
Beneficence
Bioethics as a strong public policy field
Bioethics Education
Disability rights
Bioethics considerations
6 Industry, regulations, and structures
Psychopharmaceutical industry growth
Regulatory contributions to medicalization
Considerations
Incentives and conflicts of interest
Thinking about political/economic systems
7 Informed consent
Informed refusal
Cyberspace
Reasons for consent
8 Society and sub-cultures
Granola197F200F
Global alternatives to psych
Seventh Day Adventists
Rich
Helicopter
Poor
Groups and their impact
9 The female body
Thinking about looks
Big naturals and labia envy
Girls and women
Medicalizing sex drive: Is low sex drive an abnormality?
Conflating
10 Eating: From food to Ozempic
Food for thought
Food culture and consent
How to challenge the system
11 Obesity as a disease: Drugs and informed consent
What would Ben think?
Drugs
Informed consent - clinical level
Oh, Oh, Oh Ozempic
Harm reduction: a weak justification for obesity drugs &
surgery340F345F
Harm reduction
Criteria for the ethical application of harm reduction
Harm reduction
Pediatric obesity367F373F.
Kid consumers
Bariatric surgery - incarcerated adults
Travel for tummy tucks
Considerations
12 Weird
Autism and medicalization of the geek/nerd and other groups
Autism spectrum disorder and introverted women
Autism spectrum disorder and kids
Autism spectrum disorder and gender
The autism business
A group wanting recognition and equality
Things to think about
13 Feelings
Sad
Facts and opinions
Nervous
The medicated mom
The nervous kid
Considerations
14 Distracted and inattentive497F504F
Conflict of interest and the numbers
DSM-5
Stimulants and extra time: Two sides of the same coin
Industries that disrupt attention
Neglecting the social causes, personal benefits, and realities of an array of behaviors
Personal opportunity costs
Resilience
Creativity
Diet and exercise
Home environment
Societal opportunity costs
Investment in play and free time
Class size
Teaching quality
Repairing the cutthroat nature of academics and college admissions
Conflicts of interest
Focusing on the mild at the expense of the severely mentally challenged
The problem with ADHD
Considerations
15 Slow
Considerations
16 Wrapping up
Factitious disorder imposed on another (by parents or the psych industries?)
Moving forward
Index
Acknowledgements.