Paying for the Possibility of Disease: How Medicalization of Risk Conditions Affects Health Policy and Why We Must Bear It In Mind

Medical Humanities Report:3, 4, 6 (2008)
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Abstract

In this paper, I sound a warning note about the medicalization of risk conditions such as high cholesterol, especially in a health care climate of resource scarcity.

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Alison Reiheld
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

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