Recent realisation re: "The Medicalisation of Everyday Life."

I have only recently realised that Szasz's core concept of the medicalisation of everyday life - the medicalisation of totally normal phenomena and behaviour, applies to areas of of medicine and society other than psychiatry (not strictly part of medicine of course) and psychology.

For example, everyone has heard of "irritable bowel syndrome". Now how can having an irritable bowel in and of itself be an illness?
It could be the symptom of one but how can it itself be one?

Szasz explores such questions in his excellent set of essays: "The Medicalisation of Everyday Life."
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"The Infantilisation of Everyday Life"

by Doctor Thomas Seuss.

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