medicalize
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/'medɪklaɪz/
🇬🇧
/'medɪklaɪz/
verb
R
To consider something as a medical issue that needs a doctor's help.
The tendency to medicalize grief overlooks the natural process of healing.
R
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.
translation
To consider something as a medical issue that needs a doctor's help.; To bring doctors and medical care into a situation that was not thought of as needing them before.