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Medicalization  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Demedicalization
  • Depathologization
  • Overmedicalization
  • Over-Pathologization
  • Pathologization

Scope note

  • The process by which human conditions and problems come to be defined as medical conditions, and so become the subject of medical study, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment. This may result in health, medical, economic, sociological, and ethical issues.

History note

  • 2013

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D062528

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