HLTC02H3 Lecture Notes - Reproductive Health, Biomedicine, Medical Anthropology
Document Summary
Understand healthcare systems as sites which dynamic (gendered, raced, classed) relations of power are both transformed and reinscribed. The hookworm example of dynamics of power transformed and reinscribed. The idea of masculinity and manhood over womanhood, was used to prevent disease. Identify multiple entry points of relationship between health and women. Women as targets of health policy and interventions. Mother feminism targeted laws that threatened the ability to give birth and be mothers. Women took social issues and attempted to bring a policy out of it. Advocated for better working and living conditions. Neglects of broader determinants of women"s health. Understand the critique of a too-narrow focus on women as child bearers and rearers in international health initiatives as instrumentalists, imperialistic and negligent of women"s rights and needs reproductive and maternal health in international health. A classic example was the blaming of midwives for infant mortality.
