Concept information
Preferred term
medicalization of lifestyle health issues
Definition(s)
- In the past 50 years, there has been a considerable expansion in the number of life problems that have become defined in the medical realm. As articulated by Peter Conrad in The Medicalization of Society, medicalization is primarily a definitional issue, in which historically nonmedical problems are defined and treated as medical conditions. [Source: Encyclopedia of Lifestyle Medicine & Health; Medicalization of Lifestyle Health Issues]
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-VPFP9W28-V
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