Medicalised

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What do we mean by medicalised?

To make medical; to convert or reduce to a branch of medicine.

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The word "medicalised" in example sentences

The organisation was founded more than half a century ago with the aim of winning women the right to a natural childbirth at a time when giving birth was medicalised and doctors knew best. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Transsexuality had been * so* medicalised (not to mention slagged off by rad-fems) that the whole pomo-influenced transgender theory thing was kinda necessary and gathered a number of critical insights – even if it was perhaps overly utopian and celebratory of transgression for its own sake. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Muirhead ascribes the change to the 1970s battle between "medicalised" birth and there's an interesting counterpoint, culturally, here in Betty's birth scene in Mad Men, a kind of dreamscape 60s horror show where she's so dosed up to the eyeballs on pethidine that all she can perceive is a load of masked men with huge metal instruments and the feminist drive to reclaim the process of labour. ❋ Unknown (2012)

I do hate the idea of medication, as I generally hate the idea of being medicalised. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If female circumcision was medicalised in a similar way to male circumcision, it could be made safer and less damaging. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Regarding “medicalised”, I can tell you one thing: If you were a little girl growing up with a penis and testicles between your legs, you could be pretty bloody sure that it was a medical problem. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In this theme issue and elsewhere, observers have described different forms of disease mongering: aspects of ordinary life, such as menopause, being medicalised; mild problems portrayed as serious illnesses, as has occurred in the drug-company-sponsored promotion of irritable bowel syndrome see pp. 156–174 in [2]; [4] and risk factors, such as high cholesterol and osteoporosis, being framed as diseases. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Birth is after all a natural process that people have been doing for literally thousands of years -its only in the opast 100 years or so that it has become medicalised characters left. ❋ Kiran Randhawa (2011)

Almost overnight giving birth became medicalised, putting doctors rather than midwives in charge. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Wald said: "By offering the polypill on the basis of age alone, prevention is greatly simplified and the population receiving the polypill are not medicalised, because they do not have to become patients to receive it." ❋ Sarah Boseley (2011)

If we're lucky we may be in the middle of our lives before we see death up close and then it's usually medicalised. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The gulf between natural birth and the medicalised approach puts mothers in an impossible situation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

'Transexual' is too medicalised for a lot of people's taste, and 'gender dysphoric' plays the pity card. ' ❋ Roz Kaveney (2010)

The NHS is simply not prepared to meet the potential demand for home births because we are still embedded in a medicalised culture. ❋ Unknown (2010)

NHS were "embedded in a medicalised culture", meaning many women did not realise a home birth was a viable option, Cathy Warwick, general secretary of the organisation, said in a new year message. ❋ Peter Walker (2010)

Dying has become medicalised to the extent that it is practically impossible to die naturally once a patient is admitted to hospital. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Each of us has the right to rescue our labour from its increasingly medicalised status and give birth away from a hospital, if it is safe for us, and our babies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"John and Lizzie's" provided a happy medium for those women who were put off by the highly medicalised service in hospitals but didn't want to give birth at home. ❋ Jane Little (2010)

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