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Speaking to a Broader Audience about Medicalization

The Wrong Prescription for Women: How Medicine and Media Create a “Need” for Treatments, Drugs, and Surgery. Edited by Maureen C. McHugh and Joan C. Chrisler, Santa Barbara, CA, Praeger, 2015. 275 pp. $58.00 (cloth). ISBN: 978-1-4408-3176-8

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Dillaway, H.E. Speaking to a Broader Audience about Medicalization. Sex Roles 77, 135–136 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-017-0783-6

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