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== Examples of the medical industrial complex == | == Examples of the medical industrial complex == | ||
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'''Targeting oppressed populations''' | |||
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*Black people were experimented on to advance medicine. <ref>https://jme.bmj.com/content/medethics/19/1/28.full.pdf</ref> | |||
*Some medical professionals deny queer and trans communities care, or try to 'covert' them to heterosexual. <ref>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/shock-the-gay-away-secrets-of-early-gay-aversion-therapy-revealed_b_3497435</ref> | |||
*Indigenous women face forced sterilization. <ref>https://nwac.ca/policy/forced-sterilization</ref> | |||
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'''Ableism''' | |||
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Disabled bodies are targeted as something to fix. <ref>https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/medical-industrial-complex-visual/</ref> | |||
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'''For-profit health care''' | |||
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*Health care services such as dental, vision, nutrition, mental health and physical therapy are part of for-profit health care; they are only available to those who can pay for them. | |||
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Revision as of 02:25, 12 November 2022
The medical industrial complex is a network of corporations and institutions which supply healthcare services and products for profit and at the expense of promoting care and wellness; complex, overlapping web of eugenics, charity and ableism, population control, and desirability - Abolition & Disability Justice Collective and the work of Mia Mingus, Patty Berne, and Cara Page, adapted by Michelle Xie [1]
Examples of the medical industrial complex
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Targeting oppressed populations |
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Ableism |
Disabled bodies are targeted as something to fix. [5] |
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For-profit health care |
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- ↑ https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HC35f2kDXc8cgLYWc9_oUZmINoTfP3_I
- ↑ https://jme.bmj.com/content/medethics/19/1/28.full.pdf
- ↑ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/shock-the-gay-away-secrets-of-early-gay-aversion-therapy-revealed_b_3497435
- ↑ https://nwac.ca/policy/forced-sterilization
- ↑ https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/medical-industrial-complex-visual/