biologization

English

Etymology

biologize +‎ -ation

Noun

biologization (plural biologizations)

  1. assimilation into a biological framework
    • 2015 August 3, Scott O. Lilienfeld et al., “Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: a list of inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, and logically confused words and phrases”, in Frontiers in Psychology‎, volume 6, DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01100:
      In this era of the increasing biologization of psychology and psychiatry ( Miller, 2010 ; Satel and Lilienfeld, 2013 ), authors may be tempted to assume that biological variables, such as parameters of brain functioning, “underlie” psychological phenomena.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.