单词	medicalize
释义	medicalize /ˈmɛdɪk(ə)lʌɪz / (also medicalise) verb [with object] Treat (something) as a medical problem, especially without justification: doctors tend to medicalize manifestations of distress, prescribing drugs such as sleeping tablets... According to Illich, doctors had medicalized various aspects of life, including ageing, death, pain, patients' expectations, and healing and preventive therapies. Hence the tendency to medicalise it, treat it as a health problem. His comments prompt questions about whether raising awareness of social anxiety disorder may in fact be medicalising shyness. Derivatives medicalization /mɛdɪk(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n / noun ... Early diagnosis of the disease might unleash a process of premature medicalisation. However, medicalisation of traumatic human suffering runs the risk of reducing it to a technical problem. The medicalisation of modern society has already deskilled many other professions and led patients into an unhealthy dependence on medical care.
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