Zdrowie i choroba w Sieci – o przejawach i konsekwencjach popularyzacji wiedzy medycznej w Internecie
Health, illness and the web – on manifestations and consequences of the medicalization of cyberspace

Summary/Abstract: 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 cyber medicalization 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 phenomenon.

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