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
But Cumming — usually such a charming, irreverent performer — seems trapped here: in the medicalized concept of personality, in the decision to do a dance show.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
That's beautiful, really, because they get better, whereas people with these sorts of problems in Western communities who are medicalized struggle to get better.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2021
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
“The question is whether it’s new or we’re medicalizing it,” Dr. Gordon said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 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
Perhaps we’re keen on medicalizing our phone use because a diagnosis can be a handy excuse for obtuse behavior, such as the aforementioned phubbing.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2015
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