@misc{23035, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {William Schlesinger}, editor = {Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff}, title = {“Learning Our Bodies, Healing Our Selves”}, abstract = {
Essay on how, beginning with premedical education, to improve medical service for women and others “whose have identities have been pathologized, whose health and life quality have been systematically undervalued” (142). Says that “In my feminist utopia, premedical education would be designed to instill an understanding that health care inequality and unequal distribution of life chances are not genetically programmed inevitabilities, but rather the result of structural oppression” (143). Also suggests that medical education needs to be more interdisciplinary and specifically mentions medical anthropology, gender studies, and comparative ethnic studies. Free medical education (243). Access to medical care a fundamental right (144).
}, year = {2015}, journal = {The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future}, pages = {140-146}, month = {01/2015}, publisher = {The Feminist Press at the City University of New York}, address = {New York}, isbn = {9781558619005}, language = {eng}, }