'Feminist Health' course suggests disease is 'subjective'

[rangerrebew]

'Feminist Health' course suggests disease is 'subjective'
Toni Airaksinen
 
on Mar 13, 2018 at 11:10 AM EDT
 
The University of Massachusetts-Amherst is offering a course on "Feminist Health Politics" this semester that explores whether health and disease are "subjective states" determined by societal biases.

The course will examine how standards of health "vary according to gender, race, sexuality, class, and nationality" and how this affects "the way we value certain bodies and ways of living."

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10634

[mountaineer]

I read the entire article and still can't understand what this stupid course is supposed to be about.

[Restored]

More than likely, it is an attempt to make science more subjective. Science being so objective is inconvenient when you are trying to convince people that sexuality and sex are biologically determined by a person's opinion at a given time.