Pathologization

noun

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Noun

1
The treatment of a health or behaviour condition as if it were a medical condition. countable, uncountable
"Near-synonym: overmedicalization"

Synonyms

disease mongering medicalization overmedicalization

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"Near-synonym: overmedicalization"

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