Overmedicalization

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Excessive medicalization. uncountable

    "Near-synonyms: disease mongering, pathologization"

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disease mongeringpathologization

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"Near-synonyms: disease mongering, pathologization"

Etymology

From over- + medicalization.

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