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Counter-Clinical Spaces(1)
Sociological forum (Randolph, N.J.), v 37(1), pp 155-176
01 Mar 2022
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Abstract
Intermediary spaces between health social movements and biomedicine have proliferated since the 1970s and have typically been analyzed through the lenses of co-optation or hybridization. In this article, we present data from two separate empirical projects (teaching and learning the pelvic exam in medical schools and feminist anti-violence counseling programs) in order to theorize what we call "counter-clinical spaces." Counter-clinical spaces are medicalized sites of knowledge production and practice that are produced through social movements' contestations with biomedicine. Other examples include sexual assault nurse examiner programs, LGBT health centers, and sexual health clinics. Counter-clinical spaces are "counter" and "clinical" in several ways. First, these spaces are distinctly clinical in that they intervene in the health of the body. Second, these spaces are counter-clinical in that they are organized in critique of dominant medical practices. Crucially, counter-clinical spaces engage the clinical encounter as a site of transformation: social movement actors target clinicians' deployment of medical power, especially in their interactions with marginalized persons. We thus attend to the scale upon which social movements make a change in and against medicine, and we highlight how social movement logics can and do change practices even when they are unable to shift structures.
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- Title
- Counter-Clinical Spaces(1)
- Creators
- Kelly Underman - Department of Sociology Drexel University 3201 Arch St. Suite 240 Philadelphia PA 19104USAPaige L. Sweet - University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
- Publication Details
- Sociological forum (Randolph, N.J.), v 37(1), pp 155-176
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 22
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000720942800001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85119579289
- Other Identifier
- 991019168064404721
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