scholarly journals Re-Gendering Depression: Risk, Web Health Campaigns, and the Feminized Pharmaco-Subject

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula M Gardner

Abstract: This article analyzes the textual and visual discourse of recent depression campaigns and advertisements generated by state-policy, advocacy, and pharmaceutical organizations, drawing on the work of Anne Balsamo, Nikolas Rose, and Paul Rabinow, among others. A variety of recent Web campaigns are critiqued, addressing the new pharmaceutical strategy of identifying a broad spectrum of depression. These campaigns re-gender subjects by targeting common social and biological factors in the lives of women and girls as risks, while framing male depression as patriarchal opportunity. This analysis of the discourse of gender, risk, and depression in the context of neo-liberalism indicates how health subjects are imagined as consumers and how this situation creates new constrained forms of “responsibilized,” gendered subjectivity. Résumé : Cet article analyse le discours textuel et visuel de campagnes et de publicités récentes sur la dépression produites par des organismes gouvernementaux, activistes et pharmaceutiques. Pour ce faire, on se fonde sur l’oeuvre d’Anne Balsamo, Nikolas Rose et Paul Rabinow, entre autres. Nous y passons en revue une diversité de campagnes sur le Web en portant une attention particulière sur la nouvelle stratégie pharmaceutique qui consiste à reconnaître un large éventail de types de dépression. Ces campagnes remettent l’accent sur le sexe des sujets en évaluant les pratiques quotidiennes de femmes et de filles comme comportant des risques tout en cadrant la dépression masculine comme occasion patriarcale. Cette analyse du discours sur le sexe, le risque et la dépression dans le contexte du néolibéralisme indique comment maints organismes perçoivent les patients comme étant des consommateurs et comment cette perception crée de nouvelles formes contraignantes de subjectivité « responsabilisée » par sexe.

2013 ◽  
Vol 151 (3) ◽  
pp. 950-958 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon M. Rice ◽  
Barry J. Fallon ◽  
Helen M. Aucote ◽  
Anne Maria Möller-Leimkühler

Significance Research indicates that compared with male heads of state, female leaders more often insist on consensus-building, investment in social services and empathetic communication. These traits are proving especially useful in mounting robust public health campaigns. Impacts The pandemic will spotlight the lack of women in top decision-making roles in public health, spurring change. Female political participation is likely to increase, especially in countries where female leaders are visibly tackling the pandemic. Overall, gender gaps will rise due to the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on women and girls.


2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon M. Rice ◽  
John S. Ogrodniczuk ◽  
David Kealy ◽  
Zac E. Seidler ◽  
Haryana M. Dhillon ◽  
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2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon M. Rice ◽  
Barry J. Fallon ◽  
Helen M. Aucote ◽  
Anne Maria Möller-Leimkühler

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Fleischmann

AbstractThe American Protestant Syria Mission, founded in 1821 in Lebanon, targeted young women and girls, the mothers and wives of the future, as crucial to its aims to spread the Gospel. The Mission thus founded numerous schools for girls. One institution which played a significant role in female education was the Sidon Girls' School, founded in 1862. In the 1920s the Mission initiated a self-described “revolutionary” plan for the school by instituting a home economics program, which put the school on the map of the educational landscape in the Middle East. This article deals with the legacy of the home economics program at Sidon Girls' School, raising broader issues about American-style education imported to the Middle East. Missionaries enthused about the “progressive,” modern training they offered in their schools, seemingly ignorant of the existence of home economics training already offered by indigenous government and private schools. The article investigates how the “new” education in home economics offered in Sidon reflected trends in, and attempted to transfer concepts adapted from, American female education, exploring how and why the missionary message was lost in translation; and how women graduates subverted it. L'American Protestant Syria Mission, fondée en 1821 au Liban, considérait les filles et jeunes femmes, futures mères et futures épouses, comme cruciales pour son travail d'évangélisation. La Mission créa pour cela de nombreuses écoles pour filles. Une institution qui joua un rôle important dans l'éducation féminine fut l'Ecole des Filles de Sidon (Sidon Girls' School) fondée en 1862. Dans les années 1920, la Mission y mit en œuvre ce qu'elle appela un plan « révolutionnaire » instituant un programme d'économie domestique qui allait faire la réputation de l'école dans le contexte des institutions de formation au Moyen Orient. Le présent article analyse l'héritage du programme d'économie domestique à la Sidon Girls' School et soulève des questions plus larges en relation à l'éducation de style américain importée au Moyen Orient. Les missionnaires s'enthousiasmèrent pour l'enseignement « progressiste » et moderne qu'ils offraient dans leurs écoles, ignorant apparemment l'existence de cours d'économie domestique déjà offerts par les gouvernements locaux et autres écoles privées. L'article explore comment la « nouvelle » formation offerte à Sidon était le reflet des tendances de l'éducation féminine aux Etats-Unis et comment les missionnaires tentèrent de transférer ces concepts. Il montre en outre quand et comment le message missionnaire se perdit dans cet effort de traduction, et comment les diplômées de l'école le subvertirent.


Author(s):  
David C. Byrne ◽  
Christa L. Themann ◽  
Deanna K. Meinke ◽  
Thais C. Morata ◽  
Mark R. Stephenson

An audiologist should be the principal provider and advocate for all hearing loss prevention activities. Many audiologists equate hearing loss prevention with industrial audiology and occupational hearing conservation programs. However, an audiologist’s involvement in hearing loss prevention should not be confined to that one particular practice setting. In addition to supervising occupational programs, audiologists are uniquely qualified to raise awareness of hearing risks, organize public health campaigns, promote healthy hearing, implement intervention programs, and monitor outcomes. For example, clinical audiologists can show clients how to use inexpensive sound level meters, noise dosimeters, or phone apps to measure noise levels, and recommend appropriate hearing protection. Audiologists should identify community events that may involve hazardous exposures and propose strategies to minimize risks to hearing. Audiologists can help shape the knowledge, beliefs, motivations, attitudes, and behaviors of individuals toward self-protection. An audiologist has the education, tools, opportunity, and strategic position to facilitate or promote hearing loss surveillance and prevention services and activities. This article highlights real-world examples of the various roles and substantial contributions audiologists can make toward hearing loss prevention goals.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy L. Donaldson ◽  
Karen Krejcha ◽  
Andy McMillin

The autism community represents a broad spectrum of individuals, including those experiencing autism, their parents and/or caregivers, friends and family members, professionals serving these individuals, and other allies and advocates. Beliefs, experiences, and values across the community can be quite varied. As such, it is important for the professionals serving the autism community to be well-informed about current discussions occurring within the community related to neurodiversity, a strengths-based approach to partnering with autism community, identity-first language, and concepts such as presumed competence. Given the frequency with which speech-language pathologists (SLPs) serve the autism community, the aim of this article is to introduce and briefly discuss these topics.


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