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
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
“Then it moved into highly medicalized documentaries about the ‘scientific wonders of gender conversion.’”
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
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
Findings like these, along with a greater awareness of the drawbacks that can accompany the medicalizing of obesity, have fueled popular body-positivity movements like Health at Every Size, which seek to disentangle weight from health.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 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
Because there are no clear answers to any of these questions, some sexuality professionals accuse those in the pharmaceutical industry of medicalizing what, for many, are just the natural ups and downs of life.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2016
The process of medicalizing smartphone addiction was initiated when researchers began publishing dull academic discourses on what had hitherto been merely a pop culture curiosity.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2015
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