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third-person singular simple present medicalizes, present participle medicalizing, simple past and past participle medicalized
(transitive) To make medical; to convert or reduce to a branch of medicine; especially, to pathologize. quotations examples
The sexual objectification and violation of women is made invisible because technological reproduction has turned medicalized pornography into education […]
1996, Dion Farquhar, The Other Machine: Discourse and Reproductive Technologies
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 […]
1999, Judith Rooks, Charles S Mahan, Midwifery and Childbirth
[…] sexual problems would have to be repackaged and medicalized.
2004, Leonore Tiefer, Sex is Not a Natural Act and Other Essays