pseudo-medical

And third, we need a way to distinguish between predictable human reactions to life vs. something pseudo-medical something distinguishing like, say, a medical test.

Eric Maisel, Ph.D.: Does Depression Exist? Ph.D. Eric Maisel 2012

This is true whether the mandate is divine, tribal, secular, or pseudo-medical, and it pertains to little girls as well as little boys.

Miriam Pollack: Circumcision: Identity, Gender And Power Miriam Pollack 2011

But many of those who opted for PIP implants, often on very limited incomes, presumably took that decision in the belief that the industry, much of which gives itself a pseudo-medical camouflage, is staffed by highly trained surgeons and GPs and is properly regulated and trustworthy.

Cosmetic surgery: out of a scandal must come proper regulation | Observer editorial 2012

And third, we need a way to distinguish between predictable human reactions to life vs. something pseudo-medical something distinguishing like, say, a medical test.

Eric Maisel, Ph.D.: Does Depression Exist? Ph.D. Eric Maisel 2012

This is true whether the mandate is divine, tribal, secular, or pseudo-medical, and it pertains to little girls as well as little boys.

Miriam Pollack: Circumcision: Identity, Gender And Power Miriam Pollack 2011

And third, we need a way to distinguish between predictable human reactions to life vs. something pseudo-medical something distinguishing like, say, a medical test.

Eric Maisel, Ph.D.: Does Depression Exist? Ph.D. Eric Maisel 2012

This labeling does far more than imposing a pseudo-medical diagnosis on you, it defines you as a person.

Dr. Peter Breggin: Our Psychiatric Civilization 2010

And now we see the rise of a new class of pseudo-medical fat cats -- the Professional Advocates of Autism.

Re: Autism 2009

I believe that we are building another short-term, politically expedient, boondoggle, one that will enrich an entirely new crop of anointed pseudo-medical predators, instead ofdevisinga thoughtful, rational, long-term approach to what really is an intractable, long-term problem ..

Re: Autism 2009

Immediately thoughts surfaced not only in the sphere of embryonic stem cell research, but in the case of Terri Shiavo, in which medical factors were ignored and reality was swallowed up in emotion and pseudo-medical science as a loving husband, aware of the realities concerning his wife, sought to carry out her wish of a timely and humane death.

Stem Cell Change Under McCain? Highly Unlikely! 2009