The limits of medicine: Women's perception of medical technology

`I Know My Own Body': Power and Resistance in Women's Experiences of Medical Interactions

“…Analyses of medical power relations using a relational/transactional notion of power, as does the present study, contend that women are active participants in medical power relations (Davis, 1988;Denny, 1996;Gabe and Calnan, 1989;Oinas, 1998). Feminist scholars also argue that women do not constitute a homogeneous group and, therefore, all women are not impacted in the same manner by medical power relations (Doyal, 1995;Lorber, 1994;Riessman, 1983).…”

`I Know My Own Body': Power and Resistance in Women's Experiences of Medical Interactions

“…Analyses of medical power relations using a relational/transactional notion of power, as does the present study, contend that women are active participants in medical power relations (Davis, 1988;Denny, 1996;Gabe and Calnan, 1989;Oinas, 1998). Feminist scholars also argue that women do not constitute a homogeneous group and, therefore, all women are not impacted in the same manner by medical power relations (Doyal, 1995;Lorber, 1994;Riessman, 1983).…”

Women’s Attitudes Toward Biomedical Technology for Infertility

“…Model 3 adds indirect technological experience: women's knowledge of the technology through the experiences of friends and family members (Gabe and Calnan 1989). Compared to women who had no indirect experience, women who knew someone that sought medical help and successfully had a baby were more confident in the technology.…”

Old and New Actors and Phenomena in the Three-M Processes of Life and Society: Medicalization, Moralization and Misinformation

“…In this debate, women have been typically presented as a group who are particularly vulnerable to the medicalization of their life events, health, and bodies, with pre-menstrual syndrome, menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause being defined and treated as diseases, despite the extent to which they have actively participated in medicalization because of their own gendered, aged, classed, and race-based needs and motives [9][10][11][12]. New conditions, including many that are specific to men's experiences such as erectile dysfunction and andropause, have become subject to medicalization processes, and have been critically addressed in new studies of the medicalization of men's bodies and lives [13][14][15][16], highlighting the need for a better understanding of the multiple and intricate intersections between medicine, health, bodies, and gender.…”

`I Know My Own Body': Power and Resistance in Women's Experiences of Medical Interactions

“…Analyses of medical power relations using a relational/transactional notion of power, as does the present study, contend that women are active participants in medical power relations (Davis, 1988;Denny, 1996;Gabe and Calnan, 1989;Oinas, 1998). Feminist scholars also argue that women do not constitute a homogeneous group and, therefore, all women are not impacted in the same manner by medical power relations (Doyal, 1995;Lorber, 1994;Riessman, 1983).…”

Women’s Attitudes Toward Biomedical Technology for Infertility

“…Model 3 adds indirect technological experience: women's knowledge of the technology through the experiences of friends and family members (Gabe and Calnan 1989). Compared to women who had no indirect experience, women who knew someone that sought medical help and successfully had a baby were more confident in the technology.…”

Old and New Actors and Phenomena in the Three-M Processes of Life and Society: Medicalization, Moralization and Misinformation

“…In this debate, women have been typically presented as a group who are particularly vulnerable to the medicalization of their life events, health, and bodies, with pre-menstrual syndrome, menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause being defined and treated as diseases, despite the extent to which they have actively participated in medicalization because of their own gendered, aged, classed, and race-based needs and motives [9][10][11][12]. New conditions, including many that are specific to men's experiences such as erectile dysfunction and andropause, have become subject to medicalization processes, and have been critically addressed in new studies of the medicalization of men's bodies and lives [13][14][15][16], highlighting the need for a better understanding of the multiple and intricate intersections between medicine, health, bodies, and gender.…”

`I Know My Own Body': Power and Resistance in Women's Experiences of Medical Interactions

“…Analyses of medical power relations using a relational/transactional notion of power, as does the present study, contend that women are active participants in medical power relations (Davis, 1988;Denny, 1996;Gabe and Calnan, 1989;Oinas, 1998). Feminist scholars also argue that women do not constitute a homogeneous group and, therefore, all women are not impacted in the same manner by medical power relations (Doyal, 1995;Lorber, 1994;Riessman, 1983).…”

Women’s Attitudes Toward Biomedical Technology for Infertility

“…Model 3 adds indirect technological experience: women's knowledge of the technology through the experiences of friends and family members (Gabe and Calnan 1989). Compared to women who had no indirect experience, women who knew someone that sought medical help and successfully had a baby were more confident in the technology.…”

Old and New Actors and Phenomena in the Three-M Processes of Life and Society: Medicalization, Moralization and Misinformation

“…In this debate, women have been typically presented as a group who are particularly vulnerable to the medicalization of their life events, health, and bodies, with pre-menstrual syndrome, menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause being defined and treated as diseases, despite the extent to which they have actively participated in medicalization because of their own gendered, aged, classed, and race-based needs and motives [9][10][11][12]. New conditions, including many that are specific to men's experiences such as erectile dysfunction and andropause, have become subject to medicalization processes, and have been critically addressed in new studies of the medicalization of men's bodies and lives [13][14][15][16], highlighting the need for a better understanding of the multiple and intricate intersections between medicine, health, bodies, and gender.…”