Complaints And Disorders by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Sexual Politics of Sickness
A probing collection of essays and reportage that examines how medical institutions, cultural attitudes, and gender bias have shaped the diagnosis and treatment of women’s bodies and experiences, tracing the historical roots of diagnoses like hysteria, exposing the medicalization of normal life processes, and critiquing research and clinical practices that dismiss or pathologize women’s complaints; it combines analysis and personal narrative to reveal how power, economics, and stereotypes influence health care and calls for patient advocacy, feminist critique, and more socially aware, democratic approaches to medicine.
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- 1973
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- American
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- Original Language
- English
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