CHST 2503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Port Alberni, Indian Health Service, Scaling And Root Planing
21 Nov 2016
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Another health issue where we trusted science. 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. Ivan illnich: clique of medicalization: 3 kinds of iatrogenesis: medicine causing harm, clinical: harm rests from medical care. Medicalization of women"s lives: pregnancy and childbirth, menopause, mental health. Temple grandin: role of the medical world to define illness and to give remedies, the women who thinks like a cow", a phd. , notable animal behaviourist, inventor of livestock handling machines spokesperson for autism. Along with a heartbreaking label for her child, she receives a devastating label of her own. She is a refrigerator mother. : scientific medical authority goes unquestioned and the human side gets overrun by the search for scientific answers.
