It would be preferable for people to have a feminist health care system but there a lot of obstacles to achieving it. The main things to focus on to solve the problems faced with health care today are increasing knowledge, understanding of differences, paying more attention to social impact on health, and getting corresponding support from other institutions. There are aspects to consider for patients, for health care practitioners, as well as costs, time, institutions and deeply embedded institutionalized discrimination. However, this shift could be set into motion by making accurate knowledge of gendered bodies more widespread and in particular, giving women and minorities more legitimacy, both as doctors and as patients. Social and mental
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Patients would be more involved in their treatment and treated as an equal when it comes to decision-making. A patient would be granted an ear for all their problems, both physical and social, because their practitioner would understand that illness has a social as well as mental component. In addition, their physician would be able to handle patients of equal situations equally, regardless of their financial circumstances. If a patient presented with problems involving stress, for example, instead of making assumptions about women being overemotional, or that men are handling all the stress in their lives sufficiently, a doctor would ideally treat them as people first. Through their training, they’d learn to approach the issue like a challenge that they wanted to figure out, without assumptions. Due to prevalent assumptions about women needing to be drugged when they experience strife and that the intensity of men’s emotions tend to be overlooked, a physician would consider the reverse in order to truly try to help a patient. With a feminist health care system, a woman’s life would be examined more in depth to determine the true cause of her complaints instead of simply prescribing drugs, while a man’s life would be explored carefully to see if some area of his emotional state had too much and actually …show more content…
In health care disciplines there would also be more accurate knowledge of women’s bodies (Lorber and Moore “SCI” 141).
There have been some improvements to the system. For example, a 2011 study of abortions by the Guttmacher Institute concluded that there were less pregnancies and their consequences (birth, abortion) in the later years of the study (2008-2011) than in 2008, possibly due to better knowledge of how to properly use contraceptives. We can improve further by decreasing legal restrictions on pregnancy, because
Everyone would benefit from a feminist health care system. It would definitely rock the status quo, institutions, and power structures. There would be a lot to adjust to, economically and socially. There would be lots of resistance from people who want power, to keep their money, to keep assumptions about women in place, and let poor people and minorities suffer because they don’t see how it benefits them. A feminist health care system would also need to sustainable, to interest profit-minded people would have to see how it could benefit them. food for
Patients would be more involved in their treatment and treated as an equal when it comes to decision-making. A patient would be granted an ear for all their problems, both physical and social, because their practitioner would understand that illness has a social as well as mental component. In addition, their physician would be able to handle patients of equal situations equally, regardless of their financial circumstances. If a patient presented with problems involving stress, for example, instead of making assumptions about women being overemotional, or that men are handling all the stress in their lives sufficiently, a doctor would ideally treat them as people first. Through their training, they’d learn to approach the issue like a challenge that they wanted to figure out, without assumptions. Due to prevalent assumptions about women needing to be drugged when they experience strife and that the intensity of men’s emotions tend to be overlooked, a physician would consider the reverse in order to truly try to help a patient. With a feminist health care system, a woman’s life would be examined more in depth to determine the true cause of her complaints instead of simply prescribing drugs, while a man’s life would be explored carefully to see if some area of his emotional state had too much and actually …show more content…
In health care disciplines there would also be more accurate knowledge of women’s bodies (Lorber and Moore “SCI” 141).
There have been some improvements to the system. For example, a 2011 study of abortions by the Guttmacher Institute concluded that there were less pregnancies and their consequences (birth, abortion) in the later years of the study (2008-2011) than in 2008, possibly due to better knowledge of how to properly use contraceptives. We can improve further by decreasing legal restrictions on pregnancy, because
Everyone would benefit from a feminist health care system. It would definitely rock the status quo, institutions, and power structures. There would be a lot to adjust to, economically and socially. There would be lots of resistance from people who want power, to keep their money, to keep assumptions about women in place, and let poor people and minorities suffer because they don’t see how it benefits them. A feminist health care system would also need to sustainable, to interest profit-minded people would have to see how it could benefit them. food for