(transitive) To make medical; to convert or reduce to a branch of medicine.
1996, Dion Farquhar, The Other Machine: Discourse and Reproductive TechnologiesThe sexual objectification and violation of women is made invisible because technological reproduction has turned medicalized pornography into education...
1999, Judith Rooks, Charles S Mahan, Midwifery and ChildbirthEarly in this century American obstetrics became committed to a path that has led to a highly medicalized approach to the care of women during pregnancy...
2004, Leonore Tiefer, Sex is Not a Natural Act and Other Essays...sexual problems would have to be repackaged and medicalized.
