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3120 - Gender, Health, and Medicine
Mon, August 13, 8:30 to 10:10am, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, 111BSession Submission Type: Paper Session 100min
Description
We have become a health-conscious society but what does it mean to be healthy, how do we get that way, and how does gender affect those things? Specifically – how does gender affect our definitions of health and our experiences of health care, resources, and outcomes? This panel reflects on the gendered definitions of health and illness, gendered experiences of health care, services, and resources, and the gendered dynamics inherent the development, implementation, and outcomes of health interventions.
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Being You is Not Sick: (De)medicalization of Thai Kathoey Identity - Alyssa A. Lynne, Northwestern University
Dangerous Male Bodies: Gendered Sexuality and Perceptions of STI Risk - Cristen N. Dalessandro, University of Colorado-Boulder
Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Spouses as the “Strong Arm” of Health Care - Corinne Reczek, Ohio State University; Alexandra Kissling, Ohio State University; Lauren Elizabeth Gebhardt-Kram, Ohio State University; Debra Umberson, University of Texas-Austin
From Decision to Incision: Ideologies of Gender in Surgical Cancer Care - Piper Sledge, Bryn Mawr College
The Pharmaceuticalization of Emotional Brains: Tracing the Emergence of Personalized Sexual Medicine - Brandon Lee Kramer, Rutgers University