Document 0553
 DOCN  M9480553
 TI    Man-made medicine and women's health: the biopolitics of sex/gender and
       race/ethnicity.
 DT    9410
 AU    Krieger N; Fee E; Division of Research, Kaiser Foundation Research
       Institute,; Oakland, CA 94611.
 SO    Int J Health Serv. 1994;24(2):265-83. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/94307820
 AB    National vital statistics in the United States present data in terms of
       race, sex, and age, treated as biological variables. Some races are
       clearly of more interest than others: data are usually available for
       whites and blacks, and increasingly for Hispanics, but seldom for Native
       Americans or Asians and Pacific Islanders. These data indicate that
       white men and women generally have the best health and that men and
       women, within each racial/ethnic group, have different patterns of
       disease. Obviously, the health status of men and women differs for
       conditions related to reproduction, but it differs for many
       nonreproductive conditions as well. In national health data, patterns of
       disease by race and sex are emphasized while social class differences
       are ignored. This article discusses how race and sex became such
       all-important, self-evident categories in 19th and 20th century
       biomedical thought and practice. It examines the consequences of these
       categories for knowledge about health and for the provision of health
       care. It then presents alternative approaches to understanding the
       relationship between race/ethnicity, gender, and health, with reference
       to the neglected category of social class.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/EPIDEMIOLOGY/PREVENTION &
       CONTROL/TRANSMISSION  Adult  Environmental Exposure/STATISTICS & NUMER
       DATA  Female  Health Policy/*TRENDS  Health Status  Human  Knowledge,
       Attitudes, Practice  Male  Minority Groups/*STATISTICS & NUMER DATA
       Race Relations  Risk Factors  Sex Factors  Social Class  Socioeconomic
       Factors  Sociology, Medical/*TRENDS  United States/EPIDEMIOLOGY
       *Women's Health  JOURNAL ARTICLE  REVIEW  REVIEW, TUTORIAL

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