medicalising

Turning into diagnosis

Medicalising is the British spelling of medicalizing—treating a condition, behaviour, or life experience as a medical problem requiring diagnosis or treatment.

Critics argue that society medicalises normal human variation: Critics say we're medicalising childhood by diagnosing so many kids with ADHD.

The noun is medicalisation.

clinical

diagnosis

Identification of illness

treatmentCare for an ailment
prescriptionMedical dispensing authorization
pharmaceuticalManufactured medicinal compound

hospital · physician · patient · therapy · symptoms · screening · intervention · examination · consultation · healthcare

pathologize

overdiagnosis

Finding harmless conditions unnecessarily

stigmatizeMark with dishonor
labelingAssigning identifying markers
abnormalityDeviation from expected state

dysfunction · disorder · psychopathology · somatization · deviance · normalization · reframing · categorizing · problematizing

societal

childbirth

Infant's emergence from womb

menopauseEnd of fertility
agingGrowing older over time
griefIntense sorrow from loss

shyness · sadness · addiction · obesity · infertility · ADHD · sexuality · sleep · death · loneliness

Opposites

treatment approach

medicalisingnormalising

Making usual or standard

destigmatising · validating · affirming · naturalising · tolerating

explanatory framework

medicalisingsocialising

Interacting with others recreationally

decriminalising · contextualising · naturalising · humanising · secularising

institutional control

medicalisingdemocratising

Making accessible to all

empowering · liberating · decriminalising · self-determining

Family

remedy, medicine, medical, medication, medic, medicinal, paramedic, medicate, medicated

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