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medicalization: a standalone construct

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medicalization1 CONSTRUCTMedicalizationCONRAD · MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

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Medical sociology

the process by which nonmedical problems come to be defined and treated as medical problems, usually as illnesses or disorders.

In medical sociology, medicalization refers to the process by which nonmedical problems come to be defined and treated as medical problems, usually as illnesses or disorders. This meaning comes from Conrad (1992) in Annual Review of Sociology.[1]

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  1. Conrad, P. (1992). Medicalization and Social Control. Annual Review of Sociology, 18(1), 209-232. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.so.18.080192.001233

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