medicalize - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
medicalize (third-person singular simple present medicalizes, present participle medicalizing, simple past and past participle medicalized)
- (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 (noun)
to make medical; to convert or reduce to a branch of medicine; especially, to pathologize