Others are wary of the possible cancer risks hormones pose and decry the "medicalization" of menopause.    From Wordnik.com.  [Menopause] Reference

By "medicalization" I mean Pharma is deliberately and systematically promoting ideas about illness and disease to explain everyday life.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE PRESIDENT��S NEW FREEDOM COMMISSION ON MENTAL HEALTH] Reference

These developments resulted in the "medicalization" of our society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taipei Times] Reference

"medicalization" of something that is not an illness.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Notice also the medicalization of weight management.    From Wordnik.com.  [IF YOU’RE NOT SKINNY, YOU’RE A WHALE, COW, OR PIG » Sociological Images] Reference

I do advocate for the de-medicalization of childbirth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Feminist Review of Parenting Literature] Reference

Perhaps most worrisome is the medicalization of childhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medpundit] Reference

To begin with, the piece uncritically assumes medicalization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Information, Culture, Policy, Education: South Korean cyberspace Gothic: the New York Times broods] Reference

You know what I like even less than the medicalization of race?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Face of HIV/AIDS] Reference

Enough is enough with regard to the medicalization of childbirth!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Refusal to Consent to Caesarean Section as Neglect of the Child?] Reference

That was a direct result of the medicalization of pregnancy and birth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Resigns From Hospital Because She Won’t Do Unneeded C-Sections] Reference

These syndromes are evidence of the medicalization of mundane experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellen Langer: The Medicalization Of Mundane Experience: The "Syndrome" Syndrome] Reference

Well, I'm a pretty outspoken proponent against the medicalization of childbirth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A, B, C-Section] Reference

Example, medicalizing to treat symptoms leading to the symptoms of medicalization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Mooney on the origins of the Discovery Institute - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

In law enforcement, the name for your classic psycho-babble is “the medicalization of deviance.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) blogs] Reference

COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN: I think this is the major breakthrough, that we can stop the medicalization of FGM.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2007] Reference

It is this medicalization of everyday troubles that has contributed to the massive usage of antidepressants in America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Barber: Happy Smiley Day] Reference

You bring up two very important points: the medicalization of female circumcision (which has not worked so far) and racism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interview Thursday: "It is my belief that men must be involved in protecting women’s rights..." - NDQ] Reference

It is appealing to me that being an ob/gyn does not mean that one necessarily buys into the medicalization of being female.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oprah - I'm not a doctor, but I play a really bad one on TV] Reference

I watched the students listening with rapt attention as Laurel made the case against the practice and medicalization of FGM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chi Mgbako: Sierra Leone Youth Call for an End to Female Genital Mutilation] Reference

Donimo: Yep, with all girls and women in the video, I do think it's definitely a gendered response to medicalization of bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friday music: Wonder by Natalie Merchant] Reference

And I think the whole medicalization of menopause, making this a treatable condition with pharmaceuticals, is very questionable.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 18, 2002] Reference

But with the increased medicalization of pregnancy, these tests have become routine for all pregnancies—high-risk or otherwise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Official Lamaze® Guide] Reference

This was in the broader context of the over-medicalization, the over - diagnose of disease, using our children as profit centers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2008] Reference

This from a woman who had a homebirth the first time 'round, and has much to say on the subject of the medicalization of childbirth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oh, Hai, Person With The Childbirth Horror Videos? DO NOT SHOW ME THEM] Reference

I think the medicalization of death, our belief, our need to believe, that a new doctor or pill can ward it off does us a disservice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kids Are Alright] Reference

In the eighteenth century, the medicalization of depression began, and from there it was a pretty direct line to our current attitudes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Solomon - An interview with author] Reference

There was no evidence that this system of care for pregnant women can be improved by increasing medicalization of birth (Buitendijk 1993).    From Wordnik.com.  [2. GENERAL ASPECTS OF CARE IN LABOUR] Reference

Decriminalization and medicalization are first steps - not the end game.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

Categorizing it as a sickness facilitates the medicalization of patriarchal contempt.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Blame The Patriarchy] Reference

► Recognition for the purposes of pensions - the medicalization and the politicization of PTSD.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

A psychiatrist has lashed out at what he claims is the medicalization of normal human distress.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The medicalization and pathologizing of anything other than a mood state of happiness presupposes that life is not filled with suffering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond Meds] Reference