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What does pathologization mean?

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  1. (medicine) The treatment of a health or behaviour condition as if it were a medical condition
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The term currently flags the political stance, especially in the Anglo United States, of resisting medical pathologization of trans people.
While the psychological shorthand for hostages who develop emotional attachments to their kidnappers is Stockholm syndrome, freed captives often protest the term's simplification and pathologization of their experience.
I'm torn over the pathologization of high-tech interruptions.
These include, but are not limited to, a history of improper diagnoses, pathologization, stereotypical labeling and, what the literature has determined to be, unfair disqualification of athletes.
The sitter's intense glance back at the viewer somehow disallows objectification, as well as any pathologization.
The pervasive pathologization of the healthy workings of the female reproductive system irks me to a great degree, and I applaud the authors for challenging it.

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