Sociology / Unit 9 Soc 1587 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Demedicalization
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The idea
Demedicalization is the social process that normalizes previously "sick" behavior, removing it from medical or diagnostic categories.
In practice
A condition once listed as a mental disorder in diagnostic manuals was formally removed from that classification decades later.
Where people slip
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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