Meaning Medicalization
What does Medicalization mean? Here you find 2 meanings of the word Medicalization. You can also add a definition of Medicalization yourself
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MedicalizationThe tendency in the West to define all forms of deviance and social problems to be due to disease, genetic predisposition, or other personal pathologies.
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MedicalizationA process by which nonmedical problems become defined and treated as medical problems, usually in terms of illnesses, or disorders. (Annu Rev Sociol 1992 18:209)
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