title: [Ethics and prevention of medicalization].
abstract: Society has shifted issues of subjective and social reality of the population into the medical field, with the obsession with perfect health becoming a predominant pathogenic factor in the increase in the number of diseases and patients, while the level of health in the population is improving. The power of medicine has made the idea of «medicalising» various aspects of life that can be perceived as medical problems as attractive even when it is not the case. Living entails times of unhappiness and anguish but, should we treat these episodes? We are in the health culture of «everything, here and now». In this article, the ethical implications of unnecessary interventions are analysed, along with the different alternatives that the professionals involved may perform to redirect this situation. It is reflected if we want a world where we all risk wearing labels for this or that disease.
authors.affiliation: Medicina de Familia y Comunitaria, Centro Saúde Culleredo, A Coruña, España. Electronic address: Margarita.Tovar.Bobo@sergas.es.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tovar-Bobo
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Cerecedo-Pérez
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rozadilla-Arias
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D062528:Medicalization; D008511:Medicine; D012306:Risk
keywords: Ethics; Medicalisation; Medicalización; Prevención; Prevention; Ética