medicalised
Turned into diagnosis
Medicalised is the British spelling of medicalized, describing something that has been treated as a medical issue when it might otherwise be considered normal or non-medical.
Conditions become medicalised when they fall under medical authority: Childbirth has been increasingly medicalised over the past century.
The term often carries critical undertones, suggesting that medicine has overreached into ordinary human experience.
Medical treatment facility
- physicianLicensed medical doctor
- patientAble to wait calmly
- diagnosisIdentification of illness
- treatmentCare for an ailment
consultation · specialist · clinic · healthcare · practitioner · examination · referral · intervention
Absence of organization
- conditionState or stipulation
- syndromeLinked symptoms forming pattern
- diseaseDisorder impairing normal function
- illnessState of poor health
abnormality · dysfunction · diagnosis · classification · labeling · deviance · stigma · ailment
Finding harmless conditions unnecessarily
- reductionismExplaining wholes through parts
- gatekeepingControlling access to something
- authorityPower to enforce obedience
- institutionalizationEstablishing as norm or standard
normalization · social control · expertise · professionalization · bureaucracy · surveillance · regulation · contested
hospital
Medical treatment facility
treatment · consultation · specialist · clinic · healthcare · practitioner · examination · referral · intervention · outpatient
disorder
Absence of organization
- conditionState or stipulation
- syndromeLinked symptoms forming pattern
- diseaseDisorder impairing normal function
illness · abnormality · dysfunction · diagnosis · classification · labeling · deviance · stigma · ailment · impairment
overdiagnosis
Finding harmless conditions unnecessarily
- reductionismExplaining wholes through parts
- gatekeepingControlling access to something
- authorityPower to enforce obedience
institutionalization · normalization · social control · expertise · professionalization · bureaucracy · surveillance · regulation · contested · boundaries
childbirth
Infant's emergence from womb
shyness · addiction · obesity · infertility · sexuality · pregnancy · death · insomnia · anxiety · sadness
medicalisednatural
Not artificially produced
naturalised · organic · holistic · normalised · untreated