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In other words, medicalize it and bring them into the system.

She is interested in what it means to medicalize all this - the relationship between the biological and the psychological.

"I think we will survive so long as we don't medicalize the pain," she said.

Could it be, they wrote, that the "medical campaign against obesity" comes from the tendency to "medicalize behavior we do not approve of"?

A national network that helped to medicalize depression in the public imagination would reduce sufferers' shame.

But at the same time this new knowledge problemetized the mid-life changes experienced by women and helped to medicalize it.

When you medicalize people, they think they're sick, and in our culture it's, 'Do something, Doc.

They certainly are not inventing new diseases in order to medicalize the moderate ailments of the worried well.

It is dangerous to medicalize and stigmatize relatively normal behavior by drugging millions of students.

"Medicalize it as much as you like," he retorted.

"Most women say go ahead and medicalize it," she told ABCNews.com.

"And one of my creeds is that you don't medicalize people unless it is to their advantage.

"While adhering to every single state law, we want to provide safe access for patients and really medicalize this," he told the Sacramento Bee.

Furthermore, there is no need to medicalize the act of suicide by stipulating that assistance must be provided by a doctor.

There has been a tendency to medicalize smoking cessation when work on motivation and methods of habit control may prove more successful in many cases.

Furthermore, anyone who does not buy into the model is trying to "medicalize chiropractic" - another example of low-IQ thinking.

The same questionable thinking that led to the stigmatization of black people who desired freedom is at the heart of the decision to medicalize racism.

It is tragic when people come to think that suicide is their least-bad option, but it's a mistake to medicalize all such decisions.

"We hate to medicalize a natural process," Dr. Nelson said, but she added that severe symptoms should not be dismissed.

"We often go through agonizing searches trying to find a cause for chronic pain, to try to medicalize it," Dr. Foley said.

The report challenges criticism that the terms "social phobia" or "social anxiety disorder" medicalize normal shyness.

Dr. Amen makes a good case for the use of brain imaging to explain and medicalize mental disorders," Leuchter said. "

"The argument here," Mr. Annas said, "is whether you should medicalize suicide, make it more attractive, safer, cleaner."