medicalisation


medicalisation

Medspeak
The shifting of the perception of benign states (e.g., mild anxiety, minimal elevation of blood pressure) to the perception that these states are in fact diseases requiring therapy. 
Psychiatry
Redefining to a behaviour as an illness or disease. 
Social medicine
A term for the erroneous tendency by society—often perpetuated by health professionals—to view effects of socioeconomic disadvantage as purely medical issues.