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Medicalize

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To identify a condition as a disorder requiring medical treatment.

The term 'medicalize' is usually used in a pejorative or disparaging sense.

For example, 'The recommendation that all women take folic acid during the childbearing years tends, some have argued, to medicalize this time in a woman's life.'

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