Medicalization refers to

a. ?the process of developing new drugs to treat a given illness.
b. ?treatment offered by medical doctors.
c. ?the process of defining a condition or behavior as an illness.
d. ?the growing number of doctors in the United States.
e. ?the idea that the body is more than a mere machine or factory.


ANSWER:
c

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