HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ruling Class, Abraham Flexner
5 Nov 2016
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Health and health care positions of leadership. Both in europe and western society, women were the original healers or in today"s term doctors . Men exercise a well thought out plan to suppress women healers. Men wanted to be the dominant professionals in the health care field. Men"s dream of controlling healing (medicine) and related institutional organizations. Men"s view and women"s views differ regarding health and health care extrinsic vs. intrinsic. Historically women healers formally recognized as early as 476 a. d. 1450 a. d. 1300"s 1600"s men initiated and carried out the manipulated suppression of women healers. Ruling class: both political and religious elements create an aura of contamination around women better known as the witch craze : the witch craze: calculated ruling class campaign of terror. Women healers seen as a threat: (look at podcast 10 minutes or so: politically (seen as witches, religiously (seen unclean, sexually (sexism) Western society and the displacement of women healers.
