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- noun Alternative spelling of
medicalization .
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Examples
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But the New View Campaign, which opposes the 'medicalisation' of what they call "an ambiguous, high contested diagnosis", say this is a vast exaggeration based on a 1998
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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There are also concerns about the "medicalisation" of everyday life.
Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph 2009
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"medicalisation" of the practice, in which some health workers have opted to perform the operation themselves to ensure a safer procedure using sterilised tools in clean conditions.
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"medicalisation", the expansion of the biomedical remit into domains where it may not be helpful or necessary.
Bad Science 2008
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The language used in the report indicated a movement away from the usual language of pathologisation and medicalisation so often heard in the United Kingdom when government authority figures and other official bodies get together to discuss how to progress human rights issues for transpeople.
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Beyond the exploitation of barren women for commercial means and the increasing medicalisation of fertility, the persistence of the myth of finding “Mr Right” troubles me.
Archive 2008-10-01 Another Outspoken Female 2008
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For example, Artificial Reproductive Technology ART was reckoned to be bad because of "medicalisation of procreation", "commodification", and "commercialisation of human beings".
Archive 2010-02-01 Alex Tang 2010
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Beyond the exploitation of barren women for commercial means and the increasing medicalisation of fertility, the persistence of the myth of finding “Mr Right” troubles me.
609 - I'm a member of a new club Another Outspoken Female 2008
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A rational and critical analysis of the scientific evidence ought to conclude that non-therapeutic infant circumcision is merely the medicalisation of an old ritual that should not, in the 21st century, be advocated as prevention strategy for HIV/AIDS. my underlining
Archive 2009-05-01 TK 2009
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A rational and critical analysis of the scientific evidence ought to conclude that non-therapeutic infant circumcision is merely the medicalisation of an old ritual that should not, in the 21st century, be advocated as prevention strategy for HIV/AIDS. my underlining
Circumcision and HIV/AIDS: 2 TK 2009
vanishedone commented on the word medicalisation
Ben Goldacre: 'Regular readers with be familiar with the intellectual land-grab of “medicalisation�?. Sometimes it’s about transforming a subjective moral objection into an objective, sciencey problem, as we saw with homosexuality and psychiatry. Sometimes it’s about reframing a problem to sell a solution: drug companies foster a belief that depression is down to serotonin, even though the evidence is hugely contradictory, to a public eager for simple, molecular answers. Bad school performance is related to omega-3, imply the supplement peddlers: so buy an omega-3 fish oil pill. Clomicalm, say the adverts, is “the first medication approved for the treatment of separation anxiety in dogs�?.'
July 11, 2009