Defining Medicalization as the perception of nonmedical conditions as medical problems and nondiseases as diseases, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to exposing the dangers of medicalizing the conditions of some who simply refuse to conform to society\'s expectations. c.
Szasz argues that modern psychiatry\'s tireless ambition to explain the human condition has led to the treatment of life\'s difficulties and oddities as clinical illnesses rather than as humanity revealed in its fullness.
Defining Medicalization as the perception of nonmedical conditions as medical problems and nondiseases as diseases, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to exposing the dangers of medicalizing the conditions of some who simply refuse to conform to society\'s expectations
