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Medicalize me: Experts look at how our perceptions of illness are shaped

Do prescription drug ads make people think they're sick when they're not, or create "disease" out of thin air? Does the "empowered patient" movement mean that doctors have lost some of their professional clout when it comes to making diagnoses and prescribing treatment? These questions and more are the focus of a set of probing essays in The Lancet, all addressing the topic of "medicalization" and what it means in modern society.

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