medicalize
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/'medɪklaɪz/
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/'medɪklaɪz/
To consider something as a medical issue that needs a doctor's help.
The tendency to medicalize grief overlooks the natural process of healing.
悲しみを医療化する傾向は、自然治癒のプロセスを見落としている。
To bring doctors and medical care into a situation that was not thought of as needing them before.
Some argue that to medicalize childbirth is to ignore the power of natural processes.
出産を医療化することは自然なプロセスの力を無視することだと主張する人もいる。