medicalize
Americanverb (used with object)
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But she also sees a temptation among public officials to villainize or medicalize loneliness— and to tout simplistic “solutions” to a complex and natural part of the human experience.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024
I'd really love to see us cutting down on our need to medicalize and biologize every human experience.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2021
But even if we were to accept the association’s assertion that it is necessary to medicalize athletes to ensure fair competitions, the practice would still run afoul of ethical guidelines.
From Nature ● May 16, 2019
These problems, less pressing when the subject is a dead fish, take on outsize importance when potentially flawed research is used to validate, medicalize or deny human identities.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2018
Many hackers have noticed that mainstream culture has shown a tendency to pathologize and medicalize normal variations in personality, especially those variations that make life more complicated for authority figures and conformists.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele
At times, Mr. Basciano’s narrative feels repetitive: a transnational and transhistorical account of medicalized scapegoating whose chapters are, perhaps inevitably, discomfitingly similar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
“I’m so glad to see the antithesis of this medicalized, pathologized model popping up everywhere,” she says.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
So that also is a kind of collision course between this medicalized treatment and the messages we are bombarding young girls with on social media, general media, and culture.
From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2023
I think what's really stunted our conversations about this is that we're looking at it purely through this medicalized lens and only in terms of physiological impact.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2023
“It’s a metaphor for a place that’s not medicalized, that’s comfortable and full of love.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2022
On "Switched at Birth," she noted that a scene depicting a closeup of deaf actor Sean Berdy getting fitted for a hearing aid was cut because the deaf community objected to "medicalizing a culture."
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2023
In my view, medicalizing obesity is key to reducing stigma.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2023
Rachael Benjamin, a psychotherapist at Tribeca Therapy in New York, who leads a therapy group specifically for dealing with loneliness, thinks medicalizing it “makes us feel more isolated”.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 6, 2020
For instance, some researchers have criticized mental health apps for unduly medicalizing what are normal responses to stressful situations.
From Slate ● May 13, 2020
In other words, they are moving from simply quantifying consumers’ health data to medicalizing it.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2019
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