Near-synonym: pathologization
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Medicalization
Synonyms for "medicalization" (1 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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6 translations across 6 languages.
French
1 entries- médicalisation noun (the act or process of medicalizing)
Galician
1 entries- medicalización noun (the act or process of medicalizing)
German
1 entries- Medikalisierung noun (the act or process of medicalizing)
Polish
1 entries- medykalizacja noun (the act or process of medicalizing)
Portuguese
1 entries- medicalização noun (the act or process of medicalizing)
Spanish
1 entries- medicalización noun (the act or process of medicalizing)
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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.
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Identity of Neurology Social Media and the Politician versus Medicalization of Trans People [title]
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Once we begin to ask questions about medicalization, the entire framing of the mental health toll of the Covid crisis — an “epidemic” of mental illness, as various publications have called it, rather than a political crisis with medical effects — begins to seem inadequate.
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