HLTH 102 Lecture 1: March 5, 2015 (Got A in course)
26 Dec 2015
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Gender is a social process with consequences for social, psychological, and physical health. Gender matters: clear patterns in delivery, distribution, and experience of health and illness based on gender. Exactly how gender matters is extremely complex and never a matter of gender operating in isolation from other social, political, and economic forces. Gender was something that doesn"t only have social consequences. The effect of gender norms, ideologies, and power relations on experiences and meanings of health and illness. Importance of meanings and representations (e. g. , language, symbols, and images) in constructing and interpreting the realities of disease. Meanings are relational and thus must be analyzed contextually: e. g. , the pink ribbon gains its meaning through an association with the most highly gendered colour and a history of earlier awareness ribbons. Without these connections, we would not be able to make sense of it. Pink ribbon refers to breast cancer marketing, fundraising and those who make up the culture.
