The contents of this blog will look at whether Illich’s (1976) notion of ‘medical imperialism’ is valid today.  With the medical establishment growing and rapidly developing non-medical problems into medical issues makes this statement complex and complicated.  According to Conrad (2007) The medical establishment has become controlling and have authority to define what is ‘normal’ and ‘deviant’ bodies because they produce pharmaceutical products which help individual’s bodies become ‘normal’ such as Viagra. However, Illich’s statement is complex because it is not just the medical profession who have the authority but the social movement is also indicators of what is classed as ‘normal’ bodies and health and what should be treated. This will be discussed looking at some case studies of medicalisation in this blog such as: men’s bodies, men’s gay bodies and transgender bodies.