CHST 2503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Refrigerator Mother Theory, Refrigerator Mothers, Ivan Illich

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Role of doctors/medical science as gatekeepers and experts (are we over medicating kids?) Women were given thalidomide to calm them down (they were told it would not impact their baby, silly because anything a pregnant woman puts into her mouth effects the baby) The role of funding 29702, pharmaceutical power. Intersectionality analysis: must be aware of race, class, gender, sexualities. The pill: tested on poor women in puerto rico, haiti, mexico city: some not aware they were in a trial; experiments done on orphans, children in care (was not tested on. American women, the bc pill was a huge change for women to be able to have more power and control over their lives, but how we ended up with this pill needs to be known) 3 kinds of iatrogenesis: medicine causing harm. 1. clinical: harm results from medical care itself e. g. addiction to oxycontin (hospital acquired infections)

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