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Meanings of medicalization in English

Russian
медикализация
Spanish
medicalización
Wikidata

Human conditions and problems come to be defined and treated as medical conditions.

медикализация
Synonyms
Examples for "medicalisation"
Examples for "medicalisation"
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We had all seen the progressive medicalisation of pregnancy and childbirth, she said.
The Irish Times
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And finally, multinational corporations make a heap of money out of this mass medicalisation.
BBC
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UNICEF also voiced concern about increased "medicalisation" of FGM hampering global efforts to end the practice.
Reuters
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This places immense demands on the bereaved to "get over it", and promotes the medicalisation of sadness.
The Guardian
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Dr. Tracey McIntosh from The University of Auckland with why people do what they do, the medicalisation of life, death and dying.
Radio NZ
Usage of medicalization in English
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And the medicalization of birth actually does more harm than good.
Feminist dot com
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It is sometimes performed by medical practitioners when it is speciously believed that its medicalization reduces the complications associated with the practice.
Pubmed
Translations for medicalization
Medicalization through the time