Medicalizing

Medicalize Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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medicalized; medicalizing transitive verb : to view or treat as a medical concern, problem, or disorder those who seek to dispose of social problems by medicalizing them Liam …

Medicalization - Wikipedia

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Medicalization - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

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Medicalizationis the process by which nonmedical problems become defined and treated as medical problems often requiring medical treatment. The term …

Medicalization: Scientific Progress or Disease Mongering?

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Medicalization refers to the process in which conditions and behaviors are labeled and treated as medical issues. Critics have labeled this over-medicalization or disease …

Medicalizing Obesity: Individual, Economic, …

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As Sadler and colleagues [1] define it, “‘medicalization’ describes a process by which human problems become …

How to distinguish medicalization from over-medicalization?

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The article: (i) identifies various consequences of both well-founded medicalization and over-medicalization; (ii) demonstrates that the issue of defining appropriate limits of …

Medicalization – Subcultures and Sociology

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Researchers Conrad and Schneider first introduced the term “medicalization” in their studies of deviance during the 1980s. In a general sense, medicalization refers to how human …

The Medicalization of Women | Women's Health Advocate

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Medicalization is a process whereby more and more of everyday life comes under medical influence and supervision so that medical definitions and treatments …

Medicalising - definition of medicalising by The Free …

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tr.v. med·i·ca·lized, med·i·ca·liz·ing, med·i·ca·liz·es. To identify or categorize (a condition or behavior) as being a disorder requiring medical treatment or intervention: "Increasingly, …

Medicalizing - New Discourses

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“Medicalizing” something is making it medically relevant or coming to view or understand it in medical terms, especially when this is considered unwarranted. This concern is …