Women's Studies 2244 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Medicalization, Emotional Labor, Health Care In Canada
18 Jul 2020
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Social suffering and gaps in alternative health care for vulnerable women workers . The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of social suffering among a non-random sample of canadian women working in socially and economically marginalized frontline"" service occupations. Social suffering: the pain and distress that can result from what is done to and by people through their involvement with processes of political, economic, and institutional power. Social suffering becomes embodied as physical pain and illness by vulnerable individuals who lack the power to communicate their distress by other, more overt, means. For the women in this study, their social suffering is linked to the circumstances of their everyday experiences. Can be a wound or injury to the (mind), body and spirit. Routinized forms of suffering: poverty, hunger, thirst, etc. Extreme conditions: environmental hazards, war, rape, etc. Everyday forms of suffering: commonplace events that impact the lives of oppressed or downtrodden.
