Menopause and Medicine

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses how according to Gaylord, conventional medicine dis-empowers older women but alternative therapies can empower them. The paper explains that the conventional medicine operates in a patriarchal framework and is dominated by the biomedical model. The paper relates that as is typical of a patriarchal system, conventional medicine suppresses, disregards and denigrates other systems of belief.

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"The American Medical Association has regularly depicted alternative medicine as manipulating women. The biomedical model is dis-empowering because of its focus on disease instead of on the patient. Since the body is regarded as a machine, the body's ability to heal itself is denied."

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