Some high-ranking U.S. military commanders have tried to discredit and intimidate subordinates who reported security and safety violations by ordering them to undergo psychiatric evaluations or by sending them to a mental ward. The theoretical orientation that best explains what occurred is medicalizing deviant behavior.
The process of medicalization is when previously non-medical areas of life start to be understood in terms of illnesses or disorders. A wide variety of phenomena, such as typical life events (birth, death), natural processes (aging, menstruation), typical human issues (learning and sexual difficulties), and deviant behaviors, have all been medicalized.
The process through which non-normative or morally abhorred traits of appearance (fat, physical beauty, shortness), belief (mental disease, racism), and behavior (having to drink, gambling, sexual practices) are brought under the purview of medicine is referred to as the "medicalization of deviance."
The term "medicalization of deviance" describes the process by which a state or behavior that the general public finds odd and repugnant is changed from deviance to a mental disorder. ADHD, addiction, bulimia, anorexia, nymphomania, etc. are a few of these ( homosexuality was once a part of this list).
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