MHS 2330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: John Money, Psychological Trauma, Sex Organ

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Medicine, Health, and Society
• Course: MHS 2330
• Professor: Derek Griffith

Document Summary

Guest lecture 1/24/19: sex- biological differences, gender- social circumstances, how people experience and perceive the world, ex. Men"s experience of cancer: the extent to which an individual is able to perform gender in socially appropriate ways has social implications, including those linked to health and illness, to some extent, biological facts are also socially constructed. Activists declared that intersexuality is primarily a problem of stigma and trauma, not gender (isna 2008) while medical community pathologize it as a disease/disorder. Integral to emergence of gender in the mid-20th century: gender provided a solution to the uncertainty of sex. Intersex experiences: clinical treatment of intersex created physical and psychological trauma. Infertility and shame as a result of medical treatments: ex. All women the same: social and biological causes of health problems. Individual choices are influenced by variety of factors at societal and community levels: determine how much an individual can prioritize their health, ex.