medicalization
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medicalization (countable and uncountable, plural medicalizations)
- The act or process of medicalizing.
- The medicalization of neurodiversity is complex; psychiatric nosology attempts to draw appropriate lines according to functional impairment or distress, but the concept of functional impairment sometimes relies on enculturated requirements.
- 2013, Alexander Wijnants, “Identity of Neurology Social Media and the Politician versus Medicalization of Trans People”, in Synaesthesia: Communication Across Cultures[1], volume 1, number 4, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2015-09-10, page 131:
- Identity of Neurology Social Media and the Politician versus Medicalization of Trans People [title]
- 2022 September 20, Danielle Carr, “Mental Health Is Political”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
- Once we begin to ask questions about medicalization, the entire framing of the mental health toll of the Covid crisis — an “epidemic” of mental illness, as various publications have called it, rather than a political crisis with medical effects — begins to seem inadequate.
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the act or process of medicalizing
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