medicalization

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act or process of medicalizing.

   “Near-synonym: pathologization”

   “The medicalization of neurodiversity is complex; psychiatric nosology attempts to draw appropriate lines according to functional impairment or distress, but the concept of functional impairment sometimes relies on enculturated requirements.”

   “Identity of Neurology Social Media and the Politician versus Medicalization of Trans People [title]”

   “Once we begin to ask questions about medicalization, the entire framing of the mental health toll of the Covid crisis — an “epidemic” of mental illness, as various publications have called it, rather than a political crisis with medical effects — begins to seem inadequate.”