Book Review: More than medicine: A history of the feminist women’s health movement

Affilia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-418
Author(s):  
Ericka Kimball
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Women's Health Movement ◽  
Health Movement ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women’S Health Movement

Not Just Bones, Organs, and Science

2020 ◽  
pp. 168-198
Author(s):  
Kelly Underman
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Patient Empowerment ◽  
Women's Health Movement ◽  
Health Movement ◽  
Professional Authority ◽  
History Of ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Women’S Health Movement

This chapter examines how patient empowerment seeks to train medical students to cultivate behaviors, attitudes, and values through disciplinary work done on physicians’ and patients’ affects. Because of the pelvic exam’s fraught history of rendering patients as passive objects prior to the intervention of the Women’s Health Movement, this exam serves as an interesting example to tease out threads of patient empowerment and professional authority. Patient empowerment is conceptualized as a technology comprised of discourses, knowledges, and practices that constitute patients as “partners”: fully informed subjects who are responsible for and obligated to participate in the maintenance of their own health.

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