found: Work cat: 2014512625: De las hormonas sexuadas al Viagra, 2014:p. 4 of cover ([cataloger's translation] this book analyzes the processes of medicalization of sexuality in Argentina and Brazil from multiple disciplinary perspectives) p. 141 ([cataloger's translation] the medicalization of sexuality is part of a more general process of society that consists of attributing a medical nature to representations, practices and problems that, until then, were not understood in those terms)
found: Abercrombie, N. Penguin dictionary of sociology, 2006, via WWW, Mar. 1, 2016(medicalization: this refers to the increasing attachment of medical labels to behaviour regarded as socially or morally undesirable)
found: Cambridge dictionary of sociology, 2006, via WWW, Mar. 1, 2016(medicalization: defined as the way in which the scientific knowledge of medical science is applied to behaviors or conditions which are not necessarily biological, this concept was developed (originally in the United States) in the early 1970s, associated with the view of medicine as an instrument of social control)
found: Collins dictionary of sociology, 2006, via WWW, Mar. 1, 2016(medicalization: 1. (in a medical context) the extension of medical authority into areas where lay and common-sense understandings and procedures once predominated, e.g. childbirth ... 2. (more generally) the tendency to view undesirable conduct as illness requiring medical intervention, thus extending the realm of medical judgements into political, moral and social domains)
found: Dictionary of epidemiology, 2014, via WWW, Feb. 29, 2016(medicalization: the process by which problems traditionally considered nonmedical come to be defined and treated as medical issues; the process of identification of a personal or social condition as a medical issue subject to medical intervention; the expansion of medical profession's influence and authority into the domains of everyday existence)
found: Dictionary of public health, 2007, via WWW, Mar. 1, 2016(medicalization: a process whereby a normal activity, such as pregnancy and childbirth, evolves into a situation that requires, and even becomes dominated by, specialized medical care)
found: Dictionary of sociology (Oxford), 2015, via WWW, Mar. 1, 2016(medicalization: the term commonly denotes the spread of the medical profession's activities, such as their increasing involvement in the processes of birth and dying)
found: Dictionary of the social sciences (Oxford), 2002, via WWW, Mar. 1, 2016(medicalization: the process of identification of an undesirable social condition or mental state as a medical problem subject to treatment)
found: Johnson, A.G. Blackwell dictionary of sociology, 2000, via WWW, Mar. 1, 2016(medicalization is a social process through which a human experience or condition is culturally defined as pathological and treatable as a medical condition)
found: MeSH browser, Feb. 29, 2016(heading: Medicalization; scope note: a process by which nonmedical problems become defined and treated as medical problems, usually in terms of illnesses, or disorder)
found: World of sociology, 2001, via WWW, Mar. 1, 2016(medicalization refers to the process of providing a social or natural phenomenon with a medical designation and a medically based solution)
