Table 3.

Dimensions of medicalisation [6].

Discourses	Biomedical vocabularies, models, and definitions – symptom, syndrome, disease, illness, contagion, etc.
Practices	Biomedical practices and technologies – testing, measurement, normalization, surveillance, risk assessment, insurance coverage, examination, lab testing, imaging, hygiene, surgery, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, etc.
Identities (and actors)	Individual and collective biomedical actors – physicians, biomedical researchers, hospitals, insurance companies, medical groups, drug and device makers, medical schools, professional associations, etc.