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Semiotics

Women make up more than half the population and they have health problems that are gender specific. Gender bias has held women back from living a long but unhealthy life. Although statistically women do live longer, they are not living at their maximum health potential due to limited resources and research with regards to their personal health. While attentiveness of the health troubles that women face is on the rise, consideration given to women's health is still in its early years and it needs to change. The most obvious is women reproductive health, and secondly a very questionable factor is how women and society in general allowed the medicalization of their bodies to happen.

Medicalization of Women's bodies

"Medicalization is a process that occurs when health practitioners treat ‘natural' body functions as if they were pathology, which is something abnormal. (Manual) Recent medicine (the profession and the industry) is not only a scientific project but mostly a......


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