Global Science / Women's Health By Cindy Patton and Helen Loshny

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