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- verb Present participle of
medicalize .
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Examples
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He is tone deaf to those who might bristle at the idea of medicalizing society.
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He is tone deaf to those who might bristle at the idea of medicalizing society.
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He is tone deaf to those who might bristle at the idea of medicalizing society.
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He is tone deaf to those who might bristle at the idea of medicalizing society.
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For women, more so than for men, simply "medicalizing" the problem is too reductive.
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The movie's other voices include Ray Moynihan, an Australian critic of "medicalizing" every human complaint, and Leonore Tiefer, an NYU psychologist who keeps a close eye on the Food and Drug Administration.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The movie's other voices include Ray Moynihan, an Australian critic of "medicalizing" every human complaint, and Leonore Tiefer, an NYU psychologist who keeps a close eye on the Food and Drug Administration.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Using the metaphor of mental illness for racism also follows the questionable current trend of justifying socially unacceptable behavior by "medicalizing" it.
Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture Andrea 2010
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And as comedian Stephen Colbert points out in this video, there are other problems with "medicalizing" jet lag (the relevant section starts around the 2: 30 mark in the video).
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And as comedian Stephen Colbert points out in this video, there are other problems with "medicalizing" jet lag (the relevant section starts around the 2: 30 mark in the video).
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