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Medicalised vs Medicalized - What's the difference?

medicalised | medicalized |

As verbs the difference between medicalised and medicalized

is that medicalised is (medicalise) while medicalized is (medicalize).

medicalised

English

Verb

(head)
  • (medicalise)

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    medicalise

    English

    Verb

    (medicalis)

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    medicalized

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (medicalize)

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    medicalize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * medicalise

    Verb

    (medicaliz)
  • To make medical; to convert or reduce to a branch of medicine.
  • * 1996 , Dion Farquhar, The Other Machine: Discourse and Reproductive Technologies
    • The sexual objectification and violation of women is made invisible because technological reproduction has turned medicalized pornography into education...
  • * 1999 , Judith Rooks, Charles S Mahan, Midwifery and Childbirth
    • 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...
  • * 2004 , Leonore Tiefer, Sex is Not a Natural Act and Other Essays
    • ...sexual problems would have to be repackaged and medicalized .

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