Define the term "medicalization." How does it demonstrate the critical medical anthropology approach?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer will include:
1. Medicalization is the classifying of a health problem as medical, when it actually is the direct result of social or economic circumstances.
2. Critical medical anthropology assesses how structural forces, such as the global economy and social inequality, affect people's health.
3. The recognition of medicalization is based on an understanding of how circumstances can have detrimental effects on health.
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