Example Sentences

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The result is “the medicalization of adolescence,” Dr. Zito, of the University of Maryland, said.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2022

For them all this information is intuitive, but each patient is hearing this for the first time, and unfortunately there is such a medicalization of this very personal intimate condition that just gets overlooked.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2022

Because unfortunately I think medicalization is not always very good for people's identities.

From Salon • Sep. 19, 2021

My point is that over the last few decades, there has been a medicalization of normal human despair.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2019

Hummingbird’s work with the psychiatric healthcare system left her concerned that the millennia-old spiritual traditions surrounding psychedelics risk being sidelined in the process of medicalization.

From The Guardian • Dec. 6, 2018