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Record 1 1998-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
DEF

[to] give a medical dimension to an activity.

CONT

[Professor Thomas] Szasz scores valid points about the new orthodoxies being fostered by the sexologists and the mixed blessings of "medicalizing" sex. To those who think a sex researcher has the secret key to satisfying sex, Szasz has a simple message: relax and conduct your own sex life. (Time, 15 Dec. 1980, p. 58.).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière

Spanish

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