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- noun The act or process of
medicalizing .
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Examples
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The term medicalization refers to treating a natural process as if it were a medical condition requiring intervention.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006
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The term medicalization refers to treating a natural process as if it were a medical condition requiring intervention.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006
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The term medicalization refers to treating a natural process as if it were a medical condition requiring intervention.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006
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The term medicalization refers to treating a natural process as if it were a medical condition requiring intervention.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006
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"The placebo effect is really large," notes Leonore Tiefer, Ph. D., a psychologist at the New York University School of Medicine who opposes what she calls the medicalization of female desire.
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"The placebo effect is really large," notes Leonore Tiefer, Ph. D., a psychologist at the New York University School of Medicine who opposes what she calls the medicalization of female desire.
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That's the phenomenon that sociologists call the medicalization of deviance and that Steven Sondheim described crisply in "Gee, Officer Krupke," I'm depraved on account of I'm deprived.
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I would be willing to bet, however, that not a few of the people who work with a personal trainer or who make it to the gym three and four and five times a week, and who do so because of what I am calling the medicalization of beauty, see themselves, consciously or not, as morally superior to those who do not.
Healthy Living 2006
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Others are wary of the possible cancer risks hormones pose and decry the "medicalization" of menopause.
Menopause 2008
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By "medicalization" I mean Pharma is deliberately and systematically promoting ideas about illness and disease to explain everyday life.
THE PRESIDENT��S NEW FREEDOM COMMISSION ON MENTAL HEALTH 2006
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