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Seven of the students in ms. hoye's 4th grade class are using prescribed medications to control their behavior. the idea that the medical community is at the center of classroom behavior is called

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It is called "medicalization".

Medicalization is the procedure by which human conditions and issues come to be characterized and regarded as medical conditions, and along these lines turn into the subject of medical investigation, conclusion, prevention or solution. The idea of medicalization was contrived by sociologists to clarify how medical information is connected to practices which are not self-clearly medicinal or organic.
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