Usually means: Defining normal processes as medical.
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  1. medicalization: Merriam-Webster
  2. medicalization: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. medicalization: Collins English Dictionary
  4. medicalization: Wordnik
  5. medicalization: Wiktionary
  6. medicalization: Dictionary.com
  7. Medicalization: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. medicalization: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. medicalization: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. medicalization: Medical dictionary

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  1. Sociology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (medicalization)

▸ noun:  The act or process of medicalizing.

Similar:
demedicalization, psychiatrization, illegalization, educationalization, dementalization, professionalization, musicalization, judicialization, academicization, sexualization, more...

Opposite:
demystification

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Similar:
demedicalization, psychiatrization, illegalization, educationalization, dementalization, professionalization, musicalization, judicialization, academicization, sexualization, more...

Opposite:
demystification



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