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.
將悲傷醫療化的趨勢忽視了自然癒合的過程。
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.
有人認為將分娩醫療化是忽視了自然過程的力量。