• Making Room for Women:  A Feminist Qualitative Meta-Analysis of Women’s Experiences of Heart Disease. Presented by Aimee Galick, Loma Linda University,
• Feminist Medical Family Therapy in Primary and Tertiary Care Settings. Presented by Elizabeth Patrick, Loma Linda University,
• Supporting a Feminist Agenda for Female Physicians: The Other Side of Medical Family Therapy. Presented by Barbara Hernandez, Loma Linda University,

Abstract

Physicians and medical institutions describe disease and therapeutic intervention in terms of physical realities. Over the past century this medical discourse has become the dominant perspective on health and illness. But an emerging biopyschosocial model of health and illness has promoted interprofessional collaboration, and medicine is showing more respect for patients and their relational discourses. Medical family therapy seeks to improve service delivery by bridging these competing systems of language with their differences in systemic power. This panel will describe, examine, and discuss treatment and prevention issues, based in part on new research examining women’s experiences of heart disease.

Facilitator

Carmen Knudson-Martin