HLST 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8-13: Medicalization, Racialization

• School: York University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLST 1010
• Professor: Professor Kenneth Lam

Document Summary

This chapter examines the a ects of gender and race on health in di erent perspectives, moreover explains the a ects of racialization which is a social process where race and ethnicity contribute to health. The rst part of chapter 8 describes evidence for the relationship between the issues of gender, race, and health, and the second part of the chapter discuses race and ethnicity and how it contributes to health in canada. Sex refers to biological context of being a male or female, most visible in terms of reproduction, anatomical, physical and physiological processes. One of the key points in this chapter are the various ways that sex and gender in uence patterns of health and illness among women and men in canada. Furthermore, this chapter also focuses on important questions such as to what extent are gender and race biological and/or social constructs? .