HMWK 5: Structures

Re: HMWK 5: Structures

by Christine Dehlendorf -
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Thank you so much, Nick, for the thoughtful and the thought-provoking answers. The interaction of gender and other dimensions of oppression is a very interesting component of your area, and it is made all the more complex by the fact that the condition of interest is one only experienced by female-bodied individuals, making an understanding of it in the frame of disparities complicated, since the equivalent care provided to men, and the structures surrounding this care, cannot be measured. Your intense engagement with theory and social science disciplines, as well as issues of reproductive justice and your understanding of the clinical encounter, will serve you well in exploring and understanding this complexity.

I like your positive frame about how many providers are able to overcome the challenges caused by the system to providing quality care. However, I would also argue that studying the opposite - how structures interfere with the ability of well meaning providers to provide the care they, at least at some point, wanted to provide - can be illustrative in identifying different ways that structures have an impact and potential areas for intervention.