# \[e-drug\] Medicilisation - A way of life **URL:** \ **Category:** e-drug\ **Created:** [October 23, 2001, 9:19am UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-medicilisation-a-way-of-life/12765 "2001-10-23T09:19:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BUKO\_Pharma-Kampagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@BUKO\_Pharma-Kampagne](https://talk.edrugplus.org/u/BUKO_Pharma-Kampagne)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 9:19am UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-medicilisation-a-way-of-life/12765/1 "2001-10-23T09:19:15Z")
E-drug: Medicilisation - A way of life ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Medicalisation - a way of life. Hepatitis B vaccine as example. There seems to be increasing tendency of taking every opportunity to medicalise even normal variations in life, as diseases that need medical intervention. The "medicalisation of life", helps big companies sell more drugs. It is generally women and children, who become victims of this, as most often women are the "pathway" for medicines within the family and make decisions with regarding children health. At times these medicines are introduced in the market by industry even when they do more harm than good. A good example for such an abuse is the Hepatitis B vaccine, as there are several facts unknown about Hepatitis B disease and even more on the safety of Hepatitis B vaccination. Although there seems to be some justification that Hepatitis B vaccine is needed for a small proportion of population who are at risk, it has also been advocated for mass scale use in children and adolescents. Almost 95% of those infected with Hepatitis B virus will recover with no symptoms at all, and with life-long immunity to the virus. Fewer than 5% will live essentially symptom free but with on and off infectiousness.Of the latter, only one fourth will face liver complications later in life and about two tenths of 1% of all infected will die soon after becoming infected (Ref 1). At the same time the risks of adverse reactions of the Hepatitis B vaccine are believed to be high. There are inferences that in order to prevent six cases of hepatitis B illness, one person suffered serious neurological effects (if these were truly vaccine reactions and not coincidental) (Ref 2). Hepatitis B vaccination is only one example of medicalisation, but we believe that there are several others. We would like to invite people to share such examples that they come across and also if any about hepatitis B vaccine. References 1) Bonnie S Dunbar, Department of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, Hepatitis B vaccine. [http://www.ias.org.nz/dunbar.htm](http://www.ias.org.nz/dunbar.htm) 2) The vaccine machine, civil defense perspectives, September 1998, vol 14,#6 1601. Physicians for Civil Defense, N Tucson Blvd#9, Tucson AZ 85716. [http://www.oism.org/cdp/sept98.html](http://www.oism.org/cdp/sept98.html) BUKO Pharma-Kampagne August Bebel Strasse 62 D-33602 Bielefeld Germany e-mail: bukopharma@compuserve.com Webpage www.bukopharma.de -- Send mail for the `E-Drug' conference to `e-drug@usa.healthnet.org'. Information and archive [http://satellife.healthnet.org/programs/edrug.html](http://satellife.healthnet.org/programs/edrug.html) Mail administrative requests to `majordomo@usa.healthnet.org'. For additional assistance, send mail to: `owner-e-drug@usa.healthnet.org'.