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Demedicalization

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Demedicalization is the social process that normalizes previously "sick" behavior, removing it from medical or diagnostic categories.

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A condition once listed as a mental disorder in diagnostic manuals was formally removed from that classification decades later.

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Demedicalization and medicalization can happen to different conditions at the same historical moment; neither process runs in only one direction society-wide.

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