Overdiagnosis, medicalisation and social justice: commentary on Carter et al (2016) ‘A definition and ethical evaluation of overdiagnosis’

The concept of ‘overdiagnosis’ is one of a number of related, normative concepts, such as ‘too much medicine’,1 ,2 that have emerged recently and which try and describe harms associated with the excessive or undue application of medicine. It is worth considering to what extent the concept of overdia...

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Main Author: Morrison, Michael (Author)
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Published: BMJ Publ. 2016
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 42, Issue: 11, Pages: 720-721
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