medicalize

• medicalise

medical +‎ -ize

medicalize (third-person singular simple present medicalizes, present participle medicalizing, simple past and past participle medicalized)

1. (transitive) To make medical; to convert or reduce to a branch of medicine; especially, to pathologize.
   • 1996, Dion Farquhar, The Other Machine: Discourse and Reproductive Technologies:

     The sexual objectification and violation of women is made invisible because technological reproduction has turned medicalized pornography into education […]

   • 1999, Judith Rooks; Charles S Mahan, Midwifery and Childbirth:

     Early in this century American obstetrics became committed to a path that has led to a highly medicalized approach to the care of women during pregnancy […]

   • 2004, Leonore Tiefer, Sex is Not a Natural Act and Other Essays:

     […] sexual problems would have to be repackaged and medicalized.

• medicalization

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