For example, in England, twenty-four percent of doctors are women whereas in the United States seven percent are. Although health care is mainly controlled by male professionals in Western Europe, it is neither as male dominated nor as professionally oriented as in the United States. Conventional medical histories usually claim that the professional takeover was just a case of hard science and technology winning out over women because men are more suited for the incisive, empirical approach demanded by scientific medicine women are more suited for nurturing and curing - to be nurses.ĭifferences from country to country in the structure of health care indicate that there is something not entirely right with these reasons. Before the professionals took over, health care was practiced mainly by autonomous healers, mostly women. Health care in the western world has not always been dominated by (male) professionals. 1 (The Feminist Press, State University of New York/College of Old Westbury, Box 334, Old Westbury, N.Y. Witches, Midwives, and Nurses by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, Glass Mountain Pamphlet No.
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