In the nineteenth century, medical textbooks generally described masturbation as a sign of illness. Modern textbooks, however, do not. This is an example of

a. medicalization.?
b. ?demedicalization.
c. ?depoliticization.
d. ?medical collaboration.
e. ?reductionistic treatment.


ANSWER:
b

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