Medical Professionals and the Organization of Knowledge conveys how medical people shape and organize the knowledge, perception, and experience of illness, as well as the substance of illness behavior, its management, and treatment. It is now well established that the unique sym…
[The authors] consider the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine in this brief ... textbook. They offer a ... feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness. For a creative, feminist-oriented alternative …
Gender and the social construction of illness
by Lorber, Judith, Moore, Lisa Jean
fromGender lens
Gender and the social construction of illness
by Lorber, Judith, Moore, Lisa Jean
fromThe Gender lens
Gender and the social construction of illness
by Lorber, Judith, Moore, Lisa Jean
fromGender lens
In this text, the authors consider the interface between gender as a social institution on one hand and Western medicine as a social institution on the other, and analyses issues of power and politics which pervade the study of both topics.
Gender and the social construction of illness
by Lorber, Judith, Moore, Lisa Jean
fromGender lens
Gender and the social construction of illness
by Lorber, Judith, Moore, Lisa Jean
fromGender lens
Gender and the social construction of illness
by Lorber, Judith, Moore, Lisa Jean
fromGender lens
Chapter 5 If a Situation Is Defined as Real: Premenstrual Syndrome and Menopause; Medicalized Menstruation; Cultural Constructions of Menstruation; Ritual Menstruation; Emotional Menstruation; PMS: Hormonal Hurricane or High Energy State?; Menopause: The End of Womanhood or the …