WGS367H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Breast Cancer Screening, Community Health Center, Biomedical Model

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Inequality of health and health outcomes is attributed to: class, gender, race. Yentl syndrome: different courses of action taken to treat heart attacks for men and women. This is a problem because medical research focused on male symptoms of heart attacks. Women died because of misdiagnosis their symptoms for heart attacks are different. Sex = biology born with it. It has taken too long to recognize gender as a contributing social factor of health inequity. Knowledge around the body, health and illness is culturally constructed and contextually contingent. Through power dynamics in society, certain body images/characteristics, health, and illness are superimposed as the norm (i. e. those of privileged white men). Hence, we fail to include socioeconomic status, race, class, and gender into our definition and perspective of the body, health, and illness. What is set as the norm is what we know and are conditioned to strive towards. Anything but is looked down upon or neglected.