Several nurses are discussing the effect of the medicalization of care on nursing patients with mental illness. What statement indicates that the nurses understand this historical trend?
1. "Medicalization tended to pull care away from its holistic tradition."
2. "Medicalization provided an essential basis for nursing education."
3. "Medicalization reflected a diminished interest in psychopathology."
4. "Medicalization provided a good understanding of the mind-body connection."
Answer: 1
Explanation: Medicalization served to diminish interest in the mind-body connection and pulled nursing away from its traditional interest in caring for the whole person. With medicalization, nursing training lost some of its focus on nursing as a singular discipline. Psychopathology rather than healing was emphasized with medicalization.
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