‘When Ovaries Retire’: Contrasting Women’s Experiences with Feminist and Medical Models of Menopause

Goldstein, Diane E.

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“…Feminist approaches therefore seek to supplant this pathological approach to menopause, asserting instead that it is a "normal, life-change" transition (Goldstein, 2000). Within this emancipatory feminist discourse, menopause is reconstructed as a positively significant "rite of passage" that provides space for reevaluation and new-found freedom.…”

Section: Understanding Menopause From Different Vantage Pointsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Menopause Narratives: The Interplay of Women’s Embodied Experiences With Biomedical Discourses

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Conventional approaches to menopause tend to contrast the biomedical position on menopause with women’s actual experiences of it. Rather than focusing primarily on the tensions between these perspectives (biomedical vs. lay), our emphasis here is on the impact of biomedicine in shaping participants’ perceptions of their status as menopausal. Based on interview data gathered from 39 women in Ireland, we argue that the cultural authority of biomedicine shaped participants’ experiences of the body and how they constituted their health identity. We assert that, ironically, this was particularly the case among those who most strongly contested biomedical definitions of their situation. In addition, biomedical practitioners’ definitions had a strong normalizing power in how the body was experienced. We conclude by noting that our analysis problematizes the notion of privileging “women’s experiences” as advocated by some feminist perspectives. The heavy influence of biomedical discourses in shaping participants’ embodied experiences demonstrates the pervasive impact of prevailing discourses on women’s experiences.

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Section: Understanding Menopause From Different Vantage Pointsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A final study that we consider is Goldstein's (2000) analysis of experientially constructed versions of health and illness among a self-help Internet group of women dialoguing with one another about menopause.…”

Section: Understanding Menopause From Different Vantage Pointsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Menopause Narratives: The Interplay of Women’s Embodied Experiences With Biomedical Discourses

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“…Brandt, 1985;Patton, 2002;Shah, 2001;Starr, 1982). In addition, SSM explores specific ways clinicians, affected groups or individuals, and the public as a whole come to perceive a disease, how public perceptions in turn shape clinicians' perceptions of affected patients, and how such perceptual complexes inform patients' ways of seeking help (Goldstein, 2000;King, 2006;Martin, 1994;O'Connor, 1995). This approach takes into account both the clinician/scientist's and the client's perspective on the "medicine" and medical practice that unite them.…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mobile Knowledge: HIV Patients’ Encounter with Endocrinology

Patton

2007

Canadian Journal of Communication

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Tracing the movement of new medical information from the laboratory to individual consumers is a challenge to communications theorists and social scientists alike. This article adopts the position of the social study of medicine, which takes into account the impact of people's perceptions of disease on treatment decisions and outcomes, to locate instances of the movement of information-and its limitations-in a unique setting: a metabolic disorders clinic for HIV-positive patients. Analysis of data from a participatory observation study at the clinic reveals that the clinician, inculcated into endocrinology, must adapt new information to enable communication with patients, who hold a different view of the body heavily informed by virology. This adaptation also occurs in the reverse, as patients adjust their thinking to make room for new information that will directly impact their treatment decisions.Keywords: Doctor-patient communication; Clinical ethnography; HIV; Endocrinology; Social studies in medicine Résumé : Retracer le transfert de nouvelles informations médicales du laboratoire au consommateur pose un défi au théoricien en communication tout autant qu'au savant en sciences humaines. Cet article a recours aux études sociales en médecine, où l'on étudie les perceptions des gens à l'égard de la maladie et les effets de celle-ci sur les traitements, afin de situer des exemples de transferts d'information dans un emplacement singulier : une clinique pour les perturbations métaboliques qui traite les patients atteints du VIH. L'analyse de données provenant d'une observation participante menée à la clinique révèle que le clinicien, avec son expertise en endocrinologie, doit reformuler de nouvelles informations afin de mieux communiquer avec ses patients, car ces derniers ont sur le corps un point de vue différent, fortement influencé par la virologie. Cette reformulation a aussi lieu dans le sens inverse, car les patients doivent ajuster leurs perceptions afin de mieux intégrer de nouvelles informations qui auront une portée directe sur leurs décisions à l'égard de leur traitement.

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“…Drawing on the work of Fiske (1993), Goldstein (2000) takes up the idea that globalizing technologies establish…”

Section: Rights and The Remission Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

The making of health:: a reflection on the first 10 years in the life of a journal

2006

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This introduction to the Tenth Anniversary Issue surveys articles that have been published in health: since its launch. Reviewing the original aims of the journal, the editors discuss some of the main issues that authors have raised, both about health and illness. Focusing upon articles that have been published in this particular journal, we discuss the way that new medical technologies -particularly global ones -have shaped ideas about disease and its treatment, and in consequence about what 'good health' should be. Related to the growth in medical and other technology -not least the rise of the Internet during the life of this journal -is the number of articles that discuss the rights of patients and the establishment of what might be termed an 'illness culture'. We conclude that there continues to be more to health than it being the background to illness or disease, and ask the question: should the 'taken for grantedness' of health be taken for granted any longer?

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‘When Ovaries Retire’: Contrasting Women’s Experiences with Feminist and Medical Models of Menopause

Cited by 21 publications

References 16 publications

Menopause Narratives: The Interplay of Women’s Embodied Experiences With Biomedical Discourses

Menopause Narratives: The Interplay of Women’s Embodied Experiences With Biomedical Discourses

Mobile Knowledge: HIV Patients’ Encounter with Endocrinology

The making of health:: a reflection on the first 10 years in the life of a journal

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