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Medicine, gender and disability : disabled women's health care encounter.

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Published
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>04/2001
<mark>Journal</mark>Health Care for Women International
Issue number3
Volume22
Number of pages18
Pages (from-to)245-262
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

In this article I examine the intersection of gender and disability in the medical arena by considering disabled women's experiences of receiving health care in the United Kingdom. Drawing on the "social model of disability," I focus on the attitudes and practices of doctors. I use two sources of qualitative data: (i) 68 disabled women's narratives gathered in the United Kingdom in 1996?1997; (ii) interviews with 17 disabled women regarding their reproductive experiences in the United Kingdom. I suggest that disabled women health service users are at risk of experiencing oppressive medical practices because two forces of oppression appear to be frequently, and interactively, in play: patriarchy and disablism.