Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Silent Oppession is Deadliest-Bria Shelby

Before reading the articles in the textbook, and listening to  class discussions, I did not really take notice of the inequality that people see in the the medical industry. I was aware of the issues of abortion and the restrictions that women undergo, but other health issues were not known to me. I think that I knew it on a subconscious level, but it never seemed to be on my radar. What is both interesting and  disturbing  from the readings is how much our bodies are controlled by health care authorities and how dangerous they may be to our well being. Laws have been made that restrict women, especially women of color, from being in the best physical condition they could be in; women may even be in worse states after seeing their trusted doctors. To me this is the most deadly form of oppression to women and all minorities groups because it is masked behind people  we are supposed to trust. We are taught to put our lives in the hands of doctors  but many of them end up doing unethical things to women like opposing contrceptives, misdiagnosing women based on stereotypes, and sometimes reinforcing eugenics by sterilizing certain groups.  It is hard to fight this type of institutionalized discrimination because it is so engrained in us to trust these things and think it to be normal. We do not question it because we consider these people who do these things to us as respectable people. The medical industry and the laws behind them have done things not worthy of our trust, yet we continue to trust them anyway; we may not now realize what is being done, but we must soon find ways to fix this injustice

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