pathologize
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Intersex is the term that we prefer as a community because it doesn't pathologize us, it doesn't refer to us as a problem.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2023
Other experts, however, worry that this diagnosis may pathologize those who have lived through the murder of a loved one, because a long trajectory of grief is common—not necessarily disordered—after this kind of traumatic loss.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2023
This new book offers “a compilation of research and thinking on some pernicious and persistent myths that perpetuate anti-fatness, disregard for fat people’s humanity, and pathologize our bodies.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2023
Who is making these diagnoses and why do we pathologize certain populations?
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2021
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.
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