Medicalize Quotes & Sayings

Attacks on alternative religious groups are attempts to psychologize - to medicalize - a controversy that, on deeper examination, is clearly a controversy over ideology and lifestyle. — James R. Lewis

Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it. — Paul Theroux

I want to marry the kind of girl that walks out of an abortion clinic with a lollipop. — Anthony Jeselnik

I love the ocean. I've always liked the blue, so tranquil and peaceful and gliding. And the fear of it. — Siouxsie Sioux

A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes. — James Russell Lowell

The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality - to speak of the good in the language of health: to make us more accurate, more scientific in our wanting - but by the same token it becomes a form of moral blackmail. It is as if to say: if these are not valued - if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing - are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad. — Adam Phillips

Amy Wilentz's Martyrs' Crossing is set against the ongoing tension of Israeli-Palestinian relations. When a Palestinian woman is turned back at the checkpoint at Ramallah as she attempts to take her sick child to an Israeli hospital, she and the young Israeli soldier who's guarding the crossing find their lives altered forever. — Nancy Pearl