Table of Contents
List of Figures and Table
Chapter 1: Introduction by Cindy Patton
Four Terms, Many Meanings
Trouble the Field
From Information Flow to “Connectivities”
Chapter 2: Imagined Lay People and Imagined Experts: Women’s Use of Health Information on the Internet by Diane E. Goldstein
Internet Medical-Information Users in Context
The Problem
How Do Women Use Medical Information on the Internet?
The Bad Stuff: Disinformation and Medical Rumor
Chapter 3: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Women’s Health: Educating Patients or Reinforcing Gender-, Race-, and Class-Based Disparities in U.S. Health Care? by Rachel Askew and Irene Browne
Introduction
Background on Direct-to-Consumer Advertisements
Existing Research on Direct-to-Consumer Advertisements
Why Study Direct-to-Consumer Advertising’s Effects on Subgroups of Americans?
Gender Disparities in U.S. Medicine
Research Questions
Data
Analytical Strategy
Results
Sources of Health Information
Exposure to Direct-to-Consumer Advertisements
Physician Contact as a Result of a Direct-to-Consumer Advertisement
Physician Actions Taken as a Result of a DTCA-Induced Visit
Discussion
Chapter 4: Complexity and Cancer: The Multiple Temporalities and Spaces of Cancer in
Richard Powers’ Gain by Lisa Diedrich
Novels and the Complexity of Cancer
Health and the Emergency of the Long Term
Modes of Ordering Ovarian-Cancer Causation
Asking the Causal Question
Making Soap, Making the Cancer-Industrial Complex
Practices of Witnessing Ovarian Cancer
Chapter 5: Unexpected Side Effects: Uncovering Local Impacts of Knowledge Proliferation
About HIV Metabolic Disorder in Two Distinct Populations by Cindy Patton
Multiple Bodies, Two Epidemics, One Virus
Representing Women
The Miracle of Modern Medicine
Gendering Effects
What Women Know: Gender Differences in Care Provision and Activism
Different Interpretations, Different Social Effects
Chapter 6: Women, Violence, and Mental Illness: An Evolving Feminist Critique by Marina Morrow
Psychiatric Institutionalization and “Trauma-Informed” Care: An Example
Feminist Analysis and Advocacy in the Mental Health Field
Violence and Mental Health
Responses to Violence
Some Concluding Words on Psychiatric Institutionalization and “Trauma-Informed” Care
Reconstructing Madness
Chapter 7: Globalization, Trafficking, and Health: A Case Study of Ukraine by Olena Hankivsky
Introduction
Trafficking
Ukraine and Trafficking
Internal Responses
Globalization
The Commodification of Women’s Labor and Bodies
The International Demand for Sex Work
External Influences on Ukraine’s Response to Trafficking, Including the Hegemony of Human-Rights
Discourses
Globalization, Trafficking, and Health
Rethinking Globalization, Human Rights, and Trafficking
Conclusion
Chapter 8: Routine HIV Testing of Women in High-Prevalence Areas: A Problem of Stigma,
Discrimination, and Violence by Heather Worth
Introduction
“3 by 5,” “Universal Access,” and Provider-Initiated Routine HIV Testing
Gendered Assumptions About Provider-Initiated Routine (Opt Out) HIV Testing
Conclusion
Chapter 9: “We Cry for the Orphan”: Picturing American Global Citizenship in the AIDS
Pandemic by Meredith Raimondo
What Conscience Demands: AIDS and the African Orphan
“Something You’d Never See in America”: Visual Intimacies and Citizenship
“Some With the HIV Virus”: Mothers, Orphans, and AIDS
“A Deadlier Global Threat”: Human Rights and the “War on AIDS”
Appendix A: Logistic Regression Analyses (Odds Ratios) for Likelihood of Having Seen Advertisement in Last 12 Months and Likelihood That Advertisement Prompted Physician Contact: Men and Women
Appendix B: Logistic Regression Analyses (Odds Ratios) for Likelihood of Having Seen Advertisement in Last 12 Months and Likelihood That Advertisement Prompted Physician Contact: Women only
Appendix C: Logistic Regression Analyses (Odds Ratios) for Likelihood That Physician Took Various Actions as a Result of a DTCA-Induced Visit: Men and Women
Appendix D: Chronology of Governmental Actions on Trafficking
List of Contributors
Index