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This essay will critically appraise the article "Doing health, doing gender: teenagers, diabetes and asthma" by Clare Williams published in journal Social Science & Medicine, volume 50, issue 3, pp. 387-396 in 2000. In this article, Williams looks how the socially constructed male and female identities influence how teenagers live with two acute chronic diseases: asthma and diabetes. Both chosen diseases require constant treatment and Williams tries to understand the way in which boys and girls, through their masculine and feminine identities, accept the necessity of treatment and adhere to it. The paper does not give clear hypothesis that Williams would either confirm or reverse through her study.