Is loneliness being medicalized? Trends from articles in the Web of Science database
Health:: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
Published online on April 06, 2026
Abstract
Health, Ahead of Print.
Public, policy, and media discourses increasingly frame loneliness as a “modern epidemic,” raising concerns that this complex emotional and social experience is being medicalized. However, empirical attempts to trace the extent and mechanisms of this ...
Public, policy, and media discourses increasingly frame loneliness as a “modern epidemic,” raising concerns that this complex emotional and social experience is being medicalized. However, empirical attempts to trace the extent and mechanisms of this ...