Women's Studies 2244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gardasil, Medicalization, Victim Blaming

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2244
• Professor: Jessica Polzer

Document Summary

Healthism > medicalization has pervaded everyday life through increasing health consciousness. New health consciousness in the 1970s > self-care, self-help and holistic health. Healthism fosters reductionism, depoliticization, victim blaming, and social class. Risk and primary prevention > shift away from treatment as way to manage disease. Who/what has the authority to legitimize particular definitions of: the blurring of boundaries between health and illness, invites surveillance by a range of experts. Examines the contemporary construction of one form of gendered subjectivity the. Vulnerable empowered woman through examination of popular hpv vaccination. Excellent example of close reading of text for how health discourses convey and discourse (gardasil). Dubriwny: reproduce the social order with particular meanings associated with gender, race, and class. Universal girl at risk for cervical cancer. The economically privileged post-racial construction of the girl-at-risk" of hpv. Aggressive marketing and public education depoliticizes cervical cancer mortality and screening.