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nounmedicalism (uncountable)
- uncountableA medicine-based philosophy or approach; a tendency to medicalize.
If a person truly believes in the mythology of Black Muslimism — or Judaism, or Christianity — then he does not need the ersatz mythology of medicalism and therapeutism.
1996, Thomas Szasz, Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market, page 122
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