SOSC 1185 Lecture 5: Winter handout lecture 5 Health
26 Aug 2016
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Sosc 1185: gendered bodies: health - notes: gender based analysis of health care and women"s health: Main themes as identified by mitchison are: i: medicalization of society, interventionist nature of medicine (now known as functionalist or biomedical. Relationship between medicine and culture model of health) Links or relationships between ideas about bodies, medicine & wider culture and actual practices regarding health care: Women played a vital role in caring for their families and communities but when health care became identified as part of the capitalist society, it became part of the public sphere and dominated by male doctor. Women"s bodies were viewed and focused as for primarily for reproduction and became different from the normative standards of men"s bodies. Men and women seen as different, with men bodies" seen as normative standard: applies endocentric bias, prominent in health care and diagnosis due to the normative standard.
