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overmedicalization en · NOUN

Etymology

From over- + medicalization.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Excessive medicalization.
    • The difficult choice of "not doing": Comment on "Quaternary prevention, an answer of family doctors to overmedicalization". 2015 June 2, Giorgio Visentin, “The Difficult Choice of "Not Doing"”, in International Journal of Health Policy and Management, volume 4, →DOI:
    • Near-synonyms: disease mongering, pathologization

Relateds

underdiagnosis · overdiagnosis

Synonyms

pathologization · disease mongering