Concept Definition

For each of the three concepts below, please provide a brief definition explaining the meaning of the concept.

For each concept, please provide an example from our course materials that helps to illustrate what the term means/why it is significant.

Readings, lectures, slides, clips/documentaries are all fair game for use as examples.

1.) Genetic Fallacy

2.) Reflexivity

3.) ‘Medicine as Social Science’ (Hint: this third ID is not a discrete term so much as a broader concept/theme we’ve been exploring across various course materials – a brief explanation works as a definition)

Part Two: Short Answer. 45 pts

After taking time to reflect upon our course materials and discussions so far, please compose a critical response to the following prompt.

Please be sure to address all portions of the prompt.

Approximate Length: 2-3 Paragraphs In-text citations/quotations are not required but are you are welcome to use them.

If direct quotes or paraphrases are included, please include brief citation information(e.g. last name, page number).

A separate works cited page is not required.

Short Answer Prompt

In Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness, Ehrenreich and English explore aspects of the U.S. medical professional landscape circa 1865-1920 (and beyond). Their central ‘big picture’ punchline is that gender has/does intersect with class/socioeconomic status (SES) and race. These intersections are patterned such that particular groups of women are conceptualized, understood, valued, and (mis)treated in particular ways vis-à-vis other women and others in society.

By way of our Complaints and Disorders reading, please identify and elaborate upon some of the assumptions and actions of historically held and/or taken by U.S. medical professionals with respect to:

1.) upper and upper-middle-class women (3 examples) and

2.) lower-class and poor women (3 examples)

In other words, please elaborate upon three ways that U.S. medical professionals have historically conceptualized, explained, and/or treated upper-class women and three ways that U.S. medical professionals have historically conceptualized, explained, and/or treated lower-class women. (Total of six examples)