FEM 2104 Study Guide - Health Care In Canada, Roy Romanow, Reproductive Health

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2104
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Fear of being examined by male doctors, language barriers, etc: pharmaceuticals. Women"s lives are more medicalized than men"s, so women are frequently the target for pharmaceutical markets because they"re great consumers. Drug companies have a significant amount of power in medicine and in government. They influence what pharmaceutical research gets funded, and they fund projects. They spend billions on research and development as well as marketing the product for women. Antidepressants are prescribed more to women because they are perceived as stressed and weak, thus are over-diagnosed with depression. Drugs that are prescribed for healthy women: hrt, oral contraceptives, Guardasil: alternative health care models, feminist psychotherapy: It"s the practice of psychotherapy informed by feminist philosophy and is grounded in multi-cultural feminist scholarship on the psychology of gender and women. Some feminists argue that this therapy leads both the therapist and the client towards strategies that may advance feminist resistance or feminist transformation and social change.