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antimedicalization

antimedicalization adjective: opposing medicalization.

Adjective

antimedicalization (not comparable)

  1. Opposing medicalization.
    • Yet, though Israeli women seem to look suspiciously on antimedicalization messages, medical institutions are increasingly attempting to integrate alternative medical practices into hospital births.2009, Marcia Claire Inhorn, Reconceiving the second sex: men, masculinity, and reproduction, page 292

Origin of antimedicalization

From anti- + medicalization.

Questions about antimedicalization

What does antimedicalization mean?
Antimedicalization means opposing medicalization.
What part of speech is antimedicalization?
Antimedicalization is an adjective.

Words near antimedicalization in the dictionary

  1. antimediaeval
  2. antimedial
  3. antimedian
  4. antimedians
  5. antimedical
  6. antimedicalization
  7. antimedicine
  8. antimedieval
  9. antimelancholic
  10. antimelancholics
  11. antimelanization

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