Medicalizationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From medical +‎ -ization.

名詞

medicalization (countable and uncountable, plural medicalizations)

1. The act or process of medicalizing.

   Hyponyms: overmedicalization, disease mongering

   Near-synonym: pathologization

   The medicalization of neurodiversity is complex; psychiatric nosology attempts to draw appropriate lines according to functional impairment or distress, but the concept of functional impairment sometimes relies on enculturated requirements.

   • 2013, Alexander Wijnants, “Identity of Neurology Social Media and the Politician versus Medicalization of Trans People”, in Synaesthesia: Communication Across Cultures‎, volume 1, number 4, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 September 2015, page 131:

     Identity of Neurology Social Media and the Politician versus Medicalization of Trans People [title]

   • 2022 September 20, Danielle Carr, “Mental Health Is Political”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Once we begin to ask questions about medicalization, the entire framing of the mental health toll of the Covid crisis — an “epidemic” of mental illness, as various publications have called it, rather than a political crisis with medical effects — begins to seem inadequate.

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