WOMEN AND HEALTH: POWER, TECHNOLOGY, INEQUALITY, AND CONFLICT IN A GENDERED WORLD
2003; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 24; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/07399330303996
ISSN1096-4665
Autores Tópico(s)Employment and Welfare Studies
Resumo1. Introduction. The Biomedical Model. Criticisms of the Biomedical Model. Technological Favoritism. For-Profit Intrusion in Health Care. The Gender, Race, and Class Based Organization of Society, Health, Health Research, and Health Care. 2. Science and Values. Cultural Values Influence Science. The Exclusion of Women from Research. Reporting Findings in the Literature. READINGS: Emily Martin. The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles. Patricia E. Stevens and Joanne M. Hall. A Critical Historical Analysis of the Medical Construction of Lesbianism. 3. Power and the Clinical Setting. Doctor's Power Advantage. Barriers to Interactional Symmetry. The Doctor-Patient Interaction. Women Resisting Dominating Doctors. Structural and Legal Changes. READING: Terri Kapsalis. Cadavers, Dolls, and Prostitutes: Medical Pedagogy and the Pelvic Rehearsal. 4. Poverty. Poverty in the United States. Poverty as a Cause of Ill Health. Poverty and AIDS: The Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender. Poverty and Access to Health Care. Medicaid. Navigating a Nonsystem. The Ill Cure Focus. READING: Laurie Kaye Abraham. Fitful Primary Care Fails Mrs. Jackson. 5. Violence Against Women. Domestic Violence Against Women. Historical Roots. Institutional Support for Domestic Violence. Religious and Social Service Agencies. Social Science Research. Health Care Settings. Police and Court System. Popular Culture. Naming the Problem. Sexual Harassment in the Workplace. Corporate Violence Against Women. READINGS: Carole J. Sheffield. Sexual Terrorism. Ann Jones. Why Doesn't She Leave? Patricia Y. Martin and Robert A. Hummer. Fraternities and Rape on Campus. 6. Occupational Health. The Gendered Workplace. Lack of Unionization. Jobs Assumed to Be Safe. Office Work. Electronics Industry. Health Care. Housework. Studies of Women's Occupational Health. Exclusion from Research. Gender Stereotypes. Power and Occupational Health. READING: Steve Fox. Health Complaints and the Deaths of Friends. 7. Cancer. Cancer and the Biomedical Model. For-Profit Ventures. Sexism. Race, Class, and Cancer. Responding to Cancer. Women's Voices. READINGS: Sharon Batt. Perfect People Cancer Charities. Rita Arditti and Tatiana Schreiber. Breast Cancer: The Environmental Connection. A 1998 Update. 8. Women and Body Image. Beauty Standards. Weight and Weight Loss. Cosmetic Surgery. READINGS: Denise Anthony. The Care and Feeding of the Diet Industry: Implications for Women's Health. Rebecca Wepsic Ancheta. Discourse of Rules: Women Talk About Cosmetic Surgery. 9. Raging Hormones. Menstruation. Premenstrual Disorders. Problems with research on PMS. Defining PMS as a Psychiatric Disorder. Criticism of the Disorder. Menopause. Images of Menopause. Promotion of Estrogen Replacement Therapy. Deciding Whether or not to Have Hormone Replacement Therapy. Continuing Criticism of the Deficiency Disease Model. Gender and Hormones. READINGS: Gloria Steinem. If Men Could Menstruate: A Political Fantasy. Anne Fausto Sterling. Menopause: The Storm Before the Calm. Leora Tanenbaum. The Bitter Pill: Bombarded by Propaganda on Premarin, We Can't Trust Our Doctors and We Can't Trust Ourselves. 10. Growing Older. Our Limited Knowledge. Problems with the Medical Model. Health Care Coverage and Care Settings. Living Arrangements. Successful Aging. READING: Myra Dinnerstein and Rose Weitz. Jane Fonda, Barbara Bush and Other Aging Bodies: Femininity and the Limits of Resistance. 11. Contraception and Abortion. Birth Control in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Birth Control in the Last Half of the Twentieth Century. Power, Race, and Eugenics. READINGS: Dorothy Roberts. The New Frontiers of Population Control. Danielle Currier. Illegal Abortion in the United States: A Perilous History. 12. Medicalization of Childbirth and the Midwifery Alternative. Doctors Medicalize Childbirth. Childbirth as Pathology Requiring Intervention. Critics of the Medical Model. Safety and Opposition. READINGS: Perri Klass. Bearing a Child in Medical School. Kathleen Doherty Turkel. Free-Standing Birth Centers. 13. Technology Assisted Conception. Marketing and Cultural Acceptance. Medical Enthusiasm. For-Profit Motivation and an Unregulated Industry. Inequities in Access. Exploitation and Abuses of Technology. Redefining Parenthood. READINGS: Barbara Katz Rothman. Reproductive Technology and the Commodification of Life. Judith N. Lasker and Susan Borg. The Rise and Fall of Ovum Transfer: A Cautionary Tale. 14. Fetal Quality Control. Prenatal Testing Leading to Abortion. Prenatal Testing Leading to Fetal Surgery. Surveillance of Maternal Behavior. READINGS: Monica Casper. The Case of the Disappearing Moms: Fetal Surgery and Women's Health. Marsha Saxton. Prenatal Screening and Discriminatory Attitudes About Disability. 15. Women as Health Care Providers. Formal Health Care Providers. Gender, Class, and Ethnic Stratification. Maintaining the Gender Stratification. Caring as a Woman's Duty. Keeping Women out of Medicine or it Uncomfortable to Be in Medicine. Keeping Nurses in Their Place. Class and Ethnic Stratification in Nursing. The Importance of Caring. Informal and Other Health Care Providers. READINGS: Alice Rothchild. From Both Ends of the Speculum: Reflections on Women's Health Care in America. Daniel F. Chambliss. What it Means to Be a Nurse. Katherine McDonald. A Mother's Responsibility. 16. Health Care Activists. READINGS: Judy Norsigian et al. The Boston Women's Health Book Collective and Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Brief History and Reflection. Sheryl Burt Ruzek and Julie Becker. The Women's Health Movement in the US: From Grass Roots Activism to Professional Agendas. Byllye Y. Avery. Breathing Life into Ourselves: The Evolution of the National Black Women's Health Project. Cindy Pearson. Self Help Clinic Celebrates 25 Years. Phil Brown and Faith I. T. Ferguson. Making a Big Stink: Women's Work, Women's Relationships, and Toxic Waste Activism. Lois Camp. Numbers, Numbers, Numbers. 17. Finding Resources.
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