books.google.com.au - Over the past half-century, the social terrain of health and illness has been transformed. What were once considered normal human events and common human problems—birth, aging, menopause, alcoholism, and obesity—are now viewed as medical conditions. For better or worse, medicine increasingly permeates...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Medicalization_of_Society.html?hl=zh-TW&id=cAE5hlP5YkAC&q=example&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Medicalization of Society