medicalization

plural medicalizations · alternative medicalisation

1. countableuncountableThe act or process of medicalizing.

   Near-synonym: pathologization

   3 more examples

   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.

   Identity of Neurology Social Media and the Politician versus Medicalization of Trans People [title]

   2013, Alexander Wijnants, “Identity of Neurology Social Media and the Politician versus Medicalization of Trans People”, in Synaesthesia: Communication Across Cultures, volume 1, number 4, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2015, page 131

   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.

   2022 September 20, Danielle Carr, “Mental Health Is Political”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Synonyms: pathologization