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Treat (something) as a medical problem, especially without justification.
‘doctors tend to medicalize manifestations of distress, prescribing drugs such as sleeping tablets’
‘I do worry about the fact that we medicalise everything.’
‘This move to pathologize and medicalize every human emotion and behavior is succeeding if one believes IMS America, which tracks the pharmaceutical companies.’
‘‘There is a huge move towards diagnosing and medicalising these problems,’ she says.’
‘And what does it mean to medicalize human suffering?’
‘We agree that illiteracy is not a disease that needs to be medicalized.’
‘This is especially motivated by concerns within the psychiatric profession and the general public that mental disorders are being overdiagnosed, and ordinary human problems are being medicalized.’
‘However well meaning our action may be, it medicalises the child's condition: the parents may well feel that their child must have a serious problem because he or she is ‘under’ a specialist.’
‘While once children were called stupid, lazy, naughty or obstinate, now we have many syndromes and disorders - all still imperfectly understood - that medicalise their behaviour.’
‘His comments prompt questions about whether raising awareness of social anxiety disorder may in fact be medicalising shyness.’
‘By medicalising their behavior we give medicine and the state the remit to involuntarily detain and medicate such people to prevent them from behaving in ways society finds intolerable.’
‘‘We have medicalized our white, Anglo-Saxon society to the point where it is ludicrous,’ he said.’
‘According to Illich, doctors had medicalized various aspects of life, including ageing, death, pain, patients' expectations, and healing and preventive therapies.’
‘They can be considered to be the most important effort to medicalise sexuality in the 20th century.’
‘If we're self-medicating, who decided to medicalise these emotions in the first place?’
‘This era of social reorganization and professionalization also brought the first widespread attempt to medicalize drunkenness.’
‘The long tradition of representing illness as a punishment for sin was continued when sexual behaviour was medicalised and transformed into morbidity.’
‘In the 1970s, and associated with the women's health movement, feminist sociologists began to study the way that motherhood was medicalized.’
‘There are a lot of other factors to consider and we shouldn't medicalize all human behavior.’
‘Their conceptualization of their own suffering and their response to the resulting trauma stood in sharp contrast to the Western propensity to medicalize human suffering.’
‘Hence the tendency to medicalise it, treat it as a health problem.’