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medicalize, v.|ˈmɛdɪkəlaɪz|
[f. medical a. and n. + -ize: cf. F. médicaliser.]
trans. To give a medical character to; to involve medicine or medical workers in; to view or interpret in (esp. unnecessarily) medical terms.
1970[implied in *medicalized ppl. a. below]. 1975I. Illich Med. Nemesis ii. 47 The public acceptance of iatrogenic labelling multiplies patients faster than either doctors or drugs can medicalize them. 1976― Limits to Med. 83 She will thus be marginally medicalized by two sets of institutions, the one designed to socialize her among the blind, the other to medicalize her decrepitude. 1979Daily Mail 27 Jan. 7/7 The drug industry, the Government, the chemist, the taxpayer and the doctor all have vested interests in ‘medicalising’ problems that should not really belong in the sphere of medicine at all. 1984Observer 2 Sept. 16/3 Changing an individual's personality is not the business of psychological medicine. But not only is it wrong to medicalise the issue. It is also wrong to make demands for a group tiny in size. 1991G. Greer Change 3 This is one book that seeks neither to trivialize nor to medicalize the menopause.
So ˈmedicalized ppl. a.; medicaliˈzation n.
1970New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 24 Sept. 709/1 (heading) ‘Medicalized’ sex. Ibid., Sexually active teen-age girls have a physical examination by a pediatrician, a pelvic examination by a gynecologist, a blood count, urinalysis..followed by home visits... Such an effort..represents a ‘medicalization’ of sex that is probably self-defeating. 1977Spare Rib June 45/3 A female profession up against the male medicalisation of birth. 1983J. N. Katz Gay/Lesbian Almanac 156 The medicalization of ‘sexual inversion’ meant that many individuals internalized a new ‘scientific’ negation, becoming the social agents of their own self-denial. 1991S. Faludi Backlash ii. viii. 203 Beauty became medicalized as its lab-coated army of promoters..prescribed physician-endorsed potions. |