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medicalism

medicalism noun: a medicine-based philosophy or approach; a tendency to medicalize.

Noun

medicalism (uncountable)

  1. A medicine-based philosophy or approach; a tendency to medicalize.
    • If a person truly believes in the mythology of Black Muslimism — or Judaism, or Christianity — then he does not need the ersatz mythology of medicalism and therapeutism.1996, Thomas Szasz, Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market, page 122

Origin of medicalism

medical + -ism

Questions about medicalism

What does medicalism mean?
Medicalism means a medicine-based philosophy or approach; a tendency to medicalize.
What part of speech is medicalism?
Medicalism is a noun.

Words near medicalism in the dictionary

  1. medicalisations
  2. medicalise
  3. medicalised
  4. medicalises
  5. medicalising
  6. medicalism
  7. medicalizable
  8. medicalization
  9. medicalizations
  10. medicalize
  11. medicalized

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