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 Steele, Guy L.
“What we also know is that it may be reported as medicalized FGM, but the people that are considered health providers aren't actually licensed health providers as well,” she said.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2024
“I’m so glad to see the antithesis of this medicalized, pathologized model popping up everywhere,” she says.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
Ms. Ehrenreich had been in declining health after publicly revealing a breast cancer diagnosis, but wrote in 2018 that she refused “to accept a medicalized life” and stopped most doctor visits and other care.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2022
“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
Violence prevention policies in the United States have historically emphasized individualistic and often medicalized frameworks that portray violence as primarily an issue of personal morality, psychopathology, and self-control.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2022
In my view, medicalizing obesity is key to reducing stigma.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2023
“The question is whether it’s new or we’re medicalizing it,” Dr. Gordon said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
I feel that in Western medicine, we think because we write all these things down in big books and give them technical names, that we have superiority in that, of medicalizing bodily changes.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2021
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
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