Medicalization of Women's Third Age

Kaufert, P A; Lock, Margaret

doi:10.3109/01674829709085573

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“…All strings of text relating to the general theme ''contact with doctors'' were printed, read and discussed by LH and SR, and the text strings were analysed for emerging new themes and categories, following the editing analysis style (12). In accordance with our preconceptions, perspectives on medicalization (13,14) and patient-centredness (15,16) focused the reading and contributed to the choice of categories presented below.…”

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Women's needs and wants when seeing the GP in relation to menopausal issues

Hvas¹,

Reventlow²,

Malterud³

2004

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Women's needs and wants when seeing the GP in relation to menopausal issues

Hvas¹,

Reventlow²,

Malterud³

2004

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care

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“…Medicalization is a process where initially normal reactions and parts of life are defi ned as medical problems and subsequently dealt with by the health care system. However, Kaufert and Lock (1997) emphasize two prerequisites for medicalization. First, there must be an explanatory medical model suggesting a medical solution to the phenomenon at hand, which is possible for menopause.…”

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Discourses on menopause — Part II: How do women talk about menopause?

Hvas

Gannik

2008

Health (London)

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a b s t r a c t The aim of this article is to describe which of the different available discourses women relate to as revealed in the way they talk about menopause. We use a discourse analytic approach, which implies that meaning is ascribed to things according to how we talk about them. Twenty-four menopausal women from Denmark were interviewed. They were selected to cover a broad spectrum of Danish women with different menopausal experiences and social background factors. Seven previously identifi ed discourses could be found in the interviews, though to varying degrees from woman to woman. Nearly all women used terms from the biomedical sphere like 'a period of decline and decay', even if they did not necessarily agree with this view. Also the existential discourse permeated most of the interviews, especially when the conversation turned to the ageing process, femininity and self-development. The way the menopause was talked about almost became kaleidoscopic when images speedily changed from the decrepit osteoporotic woman or a woman with lack of vitality and sex-appeal to a healthy and strong woman with control over her body and self. Since many women contact doctors in relation to menopause, and since the way doctors talk about menopause is infl uential, doctors should carefully consider which words and images they use in the counselling. The medical way of perceiving menopause is just one of many, and doctors must be aware that there are other different and partially contradicting discourses at play in society and in the women's universes.

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“…Studies identified a variety of oppressive discourses including the medicalized representations of menopause (Kaufert & Lock, 1997) and menstruation (Cheek, 1997;Markens, 1996), paternalistic racism in news accounts of ''crack mothers'' (Meyers, 2004), and victim-blaming representations of breast cancer (Clarke, 1999a;Kline, 1999). Research also suggested that women who do not enact traditional codes of femininity are depicted as posing a threat to both women and men.…”

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A Decade of Research on Health Content in the Media: The Focus on Health Challenges and Sociocultural Context and Attendant Informational and Ideological Problems

Kline

2006

Journal of Health Communication

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There is a burgeoning interest in the health and illness content of popular media in the domains of advertising, journalism, and entertainment. This article reviews the past 10 years of this research, describing the relationship between the health topics addressed in the research, the shifting focus of concerns about the media, and, ultimately, the variation in problems for health promotion. I suggest that research attending to topics related to bodily health challenges focused on whether popular media accurately or appropriately represented health challenges. The implication was that there is some consensus about more right or wrong, complete or incomplete ways of representing an issue; the problem was that the media are generally wrong. Alternatively, research addressing topics related to sociocultural context issues focused on how certain interests are privileged in the media. The implication was that competing groups are making claims on the system, but the problem was that popular media marginalizes certain interests. In short, popular media is not likely to facilitate understandings helpful to individuals coping with health challenges and is likely to perpetuate social and political power differentials with regard to health-related issues. I conclude by offering some possibilities for future health media content research.

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Medicalization of Women's Third Age

Cited by 49 publications

References 2 publications

Women's needs and wants when seeing the GP in relation to menopausal issues

Women's needs and wants when seeing the GP in relation to menopausal issues

Discourses on menopause — Part II: How do women talk about menopause?

A Decade of Research on Health Content in the Media: The Focus on Health Challenges and Sociocultural Context and Attendant Informational and Ideological Problems

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