medicalize
/med-i-kuh-lahyz/US // ˈmɛd ɪ kəˌlaɪz //
医学化,医疗化,医药化,医治
Definitions
v.有主动词 verb
- 1
med·i·cal·ized, med·i·cal·iz·ing.
- : to handle or accept as deserving of or appropriate for medical treatment.
Examples
Then she shifts to the dangers of trying to medicalize racism, which is not a medical phenomenon.
I am often dismayed at the many ways in which we medicalize a natural phenomenon that affects us all—aging.
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