Medicalization

Quick meaning: Medicalization is a noun meaning The act or process of medicalizing.

Meaning

The act or process of medicalizing.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: pathologization

Identity of Neurology Social Media and the Politician versus Medicalization of Trans People [title]

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.

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.

Word Forms

• medicalizations
• medicalisation

Synonyms for medicalization

Depending on context, synonyms include pathologization.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include medication, demedicalization, psychiatrization, illegalization, educationalization, dementalization.

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