Title |
Abuso de drogas e transtornos alimentares entre mulheres: sintomas de um mal-estar de gênero?
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Published in |
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, February 2017
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DOI | 10.1590/0102-311x00120816 |
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Authors |
Regina Helena Simões-Barbosa, Sônia Maria Dantas-Berger |
Abstract |
The article discusses drug abuse and eating disorders from the critical gender and healthcare perspectives, postulating that subjective suffering can be expressed in the body through psychosomatic illnesses. From this perspective, craving for drugs or superfluous consumer goods, just as illness from self-imposed hunger in pursuit of an ideal of slimness, as in anorexia and bulimia, can be symptoms that expose the woman's suffering. A review in the fields of public health and feminist theories highlights the magnitude of the phenomena of medicalization and commodification of health in the psychiatrization of female discomfort. In the gender transition in capitalist societies, social demands for the performance of old and new women's roles accentuate feelings of inadequacy, expressed as the gender discomfort permeating drug abuse and eating disorders, analyzed as diseases of protest. The study proposes to reclaim the ideals of the Program for Comprehensive Women's Healthcare to deal with such challenges. |
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Demographic breakdown
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Student > Master | 6 | 16% |
Student > Postgraduate | 5 | 14% |
Professor | 4 | 11% |
Student > Bachelor | 4 | 11% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 5% |
Other | 8 | 22% |
Unknown | 8 | 22% |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 22% |
Psychology | 6 | 16% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 16% |
Unspecified | 2 | 5% |
Social Sciences | 2 | 5% |
Other | 5 | 14% |
Unknown | 8 | 22% |