Homeopathy and Women Over the course of the past several decades feminist scholars, in company with medical historians, have developed a sophisticated framework for identifying the ways in which Western medicine, as a system of social control, tends to reproduce and legitimate the construction of gender in the wider society. Wielded by physicians holding positions of power, the notion that "anatomy is destiny" can become a potent ideological weapon, labelling actions that violate "natural law" as unhealthy and their perpetrators as unsound. For the most part these critical inquiries have not bothered to distinguish biomedicine from alternative healing traditions, the latter having been regarded until recently as a mere fringe phenomenon. But it there is any truth in the notion that these traditions embody not just different treatment modalities, but also more "holistic" appr....

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