pathologize
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[edit]Verb
[edit]pathologize (third-person singular simple present pathologizes, present participle pathologizing, simple past and past participle pathologized)
- (transitive) To characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease.
- Some childhood behavior has been pathologized as attention-deficit disorder.
- 2001 December 16, Melanie Thernstrom, “Pain, the Disease”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 July 2011:
- Many pain patients have had doctors who pathologized them, told them their pain was unreal.
- 2007 July 23, Rachel Endo, “Inbox”, in Time:
- To pathologize China's industries as corrupt not only reeks of centuries-old Yellow Peril rhetoric but also fails to acknowledge the shortcomings of transnational regulations.
Synonyms
[edit]- medicalize (usually synonymous)
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease
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