Women & Health

Medicine, Medicalization, and More!

Dr. Sarah Rainey

Science Bias

Andocentric & Ethnocentric Research/Treatment Eugenics Anthropometry Money/funding Applicability

What creates “bad health”? How is health “gendered”? Equity Issues (quality and access to

insurance) Stereotyping Injury: Accidents, War, Violence Globalization

Environmental Toxins Development

Disease

Women’s Health Movements

Our Bodies, Ourselves Jane Federation of Feminist

Women’s Health Centers National Women’s Health

Network

Medicalization

The way in which normal and natural bodily processes are turned into diseases or disorders that need medical intervention and treatment authority over one’s body