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).
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C7 - 2015 CY - New York DA - 01/2015 LA - eng N2 -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).
PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York PP - New York PY - 2015 RN -The book includes a number of other utopias and much additional material related to utopianism.
SN - 9781558619005 SP - 140 EP - 146 T2 - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future TI - “Learning Our Bodies, Healing Our Selves” ER -