medicalize
English
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[edit]medicalize (third-person singular simple present medicalizes, present participle medicalizing, simple past and past participle medicalized)
- (transitive) To make medical; to convert or reduce to a branch of medicine; especially, to pathologize.
- 1996, Dion Farquhar, The Other Machine: Discourse and Reproductive Technologies:
- The sexual objectification and violation of women is made invisible because technological reproduction has turned medicalized pornography into education […]
- 1999, Judith Rooks, Charles S Mahan, Midwifery and Childbirth:
- Early in this century American obstetrics became committed to a path that has led to a highly medicalized approach to the care of women during pregnancy […]
- 2004, Leonore Tiefer, Sex is Not a Natural Act and Other Essays:
- […] sexual problems would have to be repackaged and medicalized.
Related terms
[edit]- medicalization (noun)
Translations
[edit]to make medical; to convert or reduce to a branch of medicine; especially, to pathologize
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