Medicalization

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act or process of medicalizing. countable, uncountable

    "Near-synonym: pathologization"

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pathologization

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"The medicalization of neurodiversity is complex; psychiatric nosology attempts to draw appropriate lines according to functional impairment or distress, but the concept of functional impairment sometimes relies on enculturated requirements."

Etymology

From medical + -ization.

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