Paramedicalization

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Paramedicalization means the trend of people setting more and more value on alternative medicine and different beliefs about wealth and health, which are not authorized by the medical science.

The process has gone on alongside with medicalization.

Traditional or alternative medicines (especially the spiritualistic therapies) reach to ever greater scale of human activities - even to the time beyond birth and death. In that sense medicalization has much stricter borders.