单词 | medicalization |
释义 | medicalizationn. The action or process of medicalizing something. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [noun] > medicalization medicalization1970 1970 A. Ginsberg Let. 22 Sept. (2008) 354 Total medicalization of U.S. addict problem is unsupportable by British experience. 1977 Spare Rib June 45/3 A female profession up against the male medicalisation of birth. 1983 J. 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. 1994 Guardian 13 Oct. ii. 5/4 The medicalisation of transsexuality, as a disease for which there is a cure, involves therapy which is quite unlike any other. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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