"medicalization" meaning in English

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        {
          "word": "antimedicalization"
        },
        {
          "word": "biomedicalization"
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        {
          "word": "demedicalization"
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        {
          "word": "overmedicalization"
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          "word": "paramedicalization"
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          "text": "The medicalization of neurodiversity is complex; psychiatric nosology attempts to draw appropriate lines according to functional impairment or distress, but the concept of functional impairment sometimes relies on enculturated requirements.",
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          "ref": "2013, Alexander Wijnants, “Identity of Neurology Social Media and the Politician versus Medicalization of Trans People”, in Synaesthesia: Communication Across Cultures, volume 1, number 4, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2015-09-10, page 131",
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          "ref": "2022 September 20, Danielle Carr, “Mental Health Is Political”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "Once we begin to ask questions about medicalization, the entire framing of the mental health toll of the Covid crisis — an “epidemic” of mental illness, as various publications have called it, rather than a political crisis with medical effects — begins to seem inadequate.",
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        "The act or process of medicalizing."
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          "sense": "the act or process of medicalizing",
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          "word": "médicalisation"
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          "sense": "the act or process of medicalizing",
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          "word": "medicalización"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "the act or process of medicalizing",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "Medikalisierung"
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          "sense": "the act or process of medicalizing",
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          "word": "medykalizacja"
        },
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          "sense": "the act or process of medicalizing",
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          "word": "medicalização"
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          "sense": "the act or process of medicalizing",
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  "word": "medicalization"
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      "sense": "the act or process of medicalizing",
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      "word": "médicalisation"
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      "sense": "the act or process of medicalizing",
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