medicalize

medicalize

English

Alternative forms

• medicalise

Etymology

medical +‎ -ize

Verb

medicalize (third-person singular simple present medicalizes, present participle medicalizing, simple past and past participle medicalized)

1. (transitive) To make medical; to convert or reduce to a branch of medicine.
   • 1996, Dion Farquhar, The Other Machine: Discourse and Reproductive Technologies

     The sexual objectification and violation of women is made invisible because technological reproduction has turned medicalized pornography into education […]

   • 1999, Judith Rooks, Charles S Mahan, Midwifery and Childbirth

     Early in this century American obstetrics became committed to a path that has led to a highly medicalized approach to the care of women during pregnancy […]

   • 2004, Leonore Tiefer, Sex is Not a Natural Act and Other Essays

     […] sexual problems would have to be repackaged and medicalized.

Anagrams

• decimalize