pathologize
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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This new book offers “a compilation of research and thinking on some pernicious and persistent myths that perpetuate anti-fatness, disregard for fat people’s humanity, and pathologize our bodies.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 16, 2023
This great moment is that we can relax a little bit about some of these distinctions without needing to pathologize them.
From Salon • Sep. 16, 2022
By definition, then, being diagnosed with the disorder doesn’t pathologize “normal” grieving, because it’s focused on the abnormal.
From Slate • Apr. 5, 2022
Who is making these diagnoses and why do we pathologize certain populations?
From Salon • Nov. 5, 2021
Many hackers have noticed that mainstream culture has shown a tendency to pathologize and medicalize normal variations in personality, especially those variations that make life more complicated for authority figures and conformists.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
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