Medical scientist
Christian Boehmer Anfinsen, Jr., Oswald Theodore Avery, Julius Axelrod, Donald Fredrickson, Joshua Lederberg, Barbara McClintock, Marshall W. Nirenberg, Linus Pauling, Martin Rodbell, and many more.
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To identify a condition as a disorder requiring medical treatment. The term “medicalize” is also used in a pejorative or disparaging sense.
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