Psychology’s medicalization of male baldness

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Health Psychology, June 2021

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There’s a bunch of legitimate medical studies proving how...

User raccooncare, in the The most popular hair loss website and community for sufferers of alopecia and balding subreddit, 23 Mar 2026

There’s a bunch of legitimate medical studies proving how baldness is negatively stigmatized by society. Like it’s not really…

[The medicalization of baldness was assessed using data...

User Zephir_AW, in the Science: Uncensored. Science with no political censorship by Mods subreddit, 05 Aug 2022

[The medicalization of baldness was assessed using data from a review of 37 studies.](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

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User josephk_, in the The most popular hair loss website and community for sufferers of alopecia and balding subreddit, 05 Aug 2022

The medicalization of baldness was assessed using data from a review of 37 studies. Findings revealed most studies likely had commercial influences (78%), represented baldness as a disease (77%), and were conducted on biased samples (68%).

User serene-kerfuffle, in the Everything Science subreddit, 05 Aug 2022

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