Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To identify or categorize (a condition or behavior) as being a disorder requiring medical treatment or intervention.
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- verb transitive To make
medical ; to convert or reduce to a branch ofmedicine .
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Examples
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Now the anti-abortion crowd has decided to "medicalize" their narrow views about birth control with false information that has been widely discredited in the medical community.
Terry Cosgrove: So-Called Pro-Lifers Should Stop Promoting Abortion 2008
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Should doctors "medicalize" birth even more, go alternative or seek out a middle ground?
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Traditional psychology operates mostly in the UL interior, individual quadrant of the psyche, although both Freud and Jung sought to "medicalize" their theories.
Depression as an Adaptive Trait [Updated] William Harryman 2007
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Proposition 200 declared that "drug abuse is a public health problem" and vowed to "medicalize" the state's drug-control policy.
More Reefer Madness 1997
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Drayna says he hopes his work will not only "medicalize" stuttering - bringing it into clinical biomedicine - but legitimize it as well.
Scientific American 2010
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We "medicalize" anorexia nervosa for good reason: it's a real health concern.
feminist blogs 2010
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Drayna says he hopes his work will not only "medicalize" stuttering - bringing it into clinical biomedicine - but legitimize it as well.
Scientific American 2010
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They'll most likely tell you to knock on your neighb's door and politely ask them to take it outside: - / kylewritescode answered: There was a case a while back where two lawyers sued their neighbor for smoking in her apartment … maybe give People's Firehouse a call. ironknickers answered: yeah man! more so if you say you have a family history of medical illness's related to smoking, even Second hand. mills answered: It depends on your willingness to 'medicalize' your discomfort by claiming illness; exaggeration (or lying) in this area is rewarded. skyl answered: i would hope so. that disgusting pasty answered: Yes.
Marco.org 2009
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But when we medicalize some of these, or start charging people for them, then it gets to be more of an issue.
Sifting for the truth in medical myths: Fact or fiction? 2011
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Today, our approach to the social burden of alcohol is best described as a mixture of all three: we moralize, medicalize, and legalize.
Gladwell: cultural norms affect drinking! | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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