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- verb Alternative spelling of
medicalize .
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Examples
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According to commentators on the Right, such as Charles Krauthammer, this thesis is a pernicious attempt to "medicalise" Major Hasan's crime in the interests of avoiding any implication that there was a meaningful connection between his Islamic religious beliefs and his act.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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'medicalise' a problem which is perhaps not that important.
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Or are they about the drug companies 'attempts to medicalise female sexuality for financial gain?
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I also get some background on the history of attempts to medicalise female sexual function.
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She meets the campaigners who rage against the attempts to control and medicalise women's sexuality.
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There is, I think, something slightly alarming about our rush to drug ourselves out of normal human feeling, to flatten the palate of human emotion, and to medicalise, and pathologise, pain.
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Illegal procedures will prove even harder to monitor and medicalise.
Archive 2009-05-01 TK 2009
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Szasz is an arch-sceptic about the claims made for psychiatry and an opponent of the attempts to medicalise human behaviour.
Camilla Cavendish 2009
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Illegal procedures will prove even harder to monitor and medicalise.
Circumcision and HIV/AIDS: 2 TK 2009
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Bad Science » More than molecules – how pill pushers and the media medicalise social problems mp3 lecture
You have to ask the questions, or it doesn't count. miss_s_b 2008
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