Zdrowie i choroba w Sieci – o przejawach i konsekwencjach popularyzacji wiedzy medycznej w Internecie

• Authors: Magdalena Wieczorkowska

Title variants

EN

Health, illness and the web – on manifestations and consequences of the medicalization of cyberspace

Abstracts

PL

The article describes the process of the medicalization of cyberspace. The first part of the article depicts the process of medicalization itself and within its frames cybermedicalization is presented. The second part characterizes the medicalization of cyberspace through its aspects and main dimensions: medical portals, virtual health communities, health promotion in cyberspace, illegal medicines and organs trafficking, and the advertising of drugs and medical products in the net and cyberchondria. The last part shows the main consequences of this phenomena.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Człowiek i Społeczeństwo
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 40
• Pages: 137-155

Contributors

author

Magdalena Wieczorkowska

• Uniwersytet Medyczny w Łodzi, Zakład Socjologii, ul. Lindleya 6, 90-131 Łódź, Poland

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/cis.2015.40.9

Biblioteka Nauki

1029907