SOC 608 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Population Health, Ibm 7070, Men Only
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Huge health disparities between white men and women and white men and minorities. Kinds of treatments and experiences are shaped by social location (class, religion, age, power, access to resources) Today a lot of medical research focuses on stem cell research. A lot is done at u of t and israel. No stem cell research done in the us while bush was in power. Assumption is that the male body is the normative body. All medical research is done on male bodies. Research that had always been done was using male fetuses by accidently they used female stem cells and they found a very different result. What did medicine look like until 1880"s. There was no such thing as medicine. Someone had put a curse on you. People worse symbols of religion to ward off evil spirits. People understood everything about their lives through the lens of religion.
