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How medicalization lost its way

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Joseph E. Davis is a research associate professor of sociology at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. He is the author, most recently, ofAccounts of Innocence: Sexual Abuse, Trauma, and the Self, and is writing a book on medicalization.

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Davis, J.E. How medicalization lost its way. Soc 43, 51–56 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02698486

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