Medicine, Gender, and Disability

Disabled Women's Health Care Encounters

Dados Bibliográficos

ID15218752
AutoresCarol Thomas (0000-0003-4188-9224, Lancaster University, autor correspondente)
Ano2001
Volume22
Fascículo3
Páginas245-262
Data de publicação2001-04-30
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHealth Care For Women International (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0739-9332 • E-ISSN: 1096-4665
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/073993301300357188
PMID11814071
OpenAlexW1988189812
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10

In this article I examine the intersection of gender and disability in the medical arena by considering disabled women's experiences of receiving health care in the United Kingdom. Drawing on the "social model of disability," I focus on the attitudes and practices of doctors. I use two sources of qualitative data: (i) 68 disabled women's narratives gathered in the United Kingdom in 1996-1997; (ii) interviews with 17 disabled women regarding their reproductive experiences in the United Kingdom. I suggest that disabled women health service users are at risk of experiencing oppressive medical practices because two forces of oppression appear to be frequently, and interactively, in play: patriarchy and disablism

Focus group · Health care · Narrative · Oppression · Patriarchy · Political science · Politics · Qualitative research · Sociology · Disability Rights and Representation · Gender Studies · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Gerontology