The historical medicalization of homosexuality demonstrates that biomedical consensus can systematically encode dominant social values as pathology, not discovered biological fact.

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Biomedical consensus(as used in philosophy of science): When most doctors and medical scientists agree on something about health and the body based on their research and expertise.
Discovered vs. constructed biological fact(as used in philosophy of science): The question of whether something about biology is objectively true in nature (discovered) or whether humans created that understanding based on their own values and biases (constructed).
Encode (in a social/philosophical sense)(as used in social philosophy): To build in or embed a belief, value, or assumption into a system in a way that makes it seem like just how things naturally are.
Medicalization(Used to illustrate the instability of impairment classifications): The process by which a condition comes to be classified as a medical impairment (e.g., shyness).

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