The Interaction between Policies and Practices of Medicine and Healthcare
The Interaction between Policies and Practices of Medicine and Healthcare
Monday, 7 July 2025: 11:00-12:45
Location: FSE030 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC15 Sociology of Health (host committee) Language: English
As Carol Bacchi has argued, policies are not just responses to problems that reside
outside the policy process that wait to be discovered or solved but rather ‘contain
implicit representations of the “problems” they purport to address’. This session will
focus on the complex interaction between portrayals or enactments of policy and
practices of medicine and healthcare. Contributors will consider how policies currently
produce or reinforce discrimination (for example, through perpetuating stereotypes or
reinforcing stigma) or other harms, and the unintended consequences of policies
purportedly designed to address inequalities and/or advance health and wellbeing; for
example, ‘intersectionality’. They will also discuss the kinds of policies that are most
likely to advance people’s health and wellbeing in the future.
outside the policy process that wait to be discovered or solved but rather ‘contain
implicit representations of the “problems” they purport to address’. This session will
focus on the complex interaction between portrayals or enactments of policy and
practices of medicine and healthcare. Contributors will consider how policies currently
produce or reinforce discrimination (for example, through perpetuating stereotypes or
reinforcing stigma) or other harms, and the unintended consequences of policies
purportedly designed to address inequalities and/or advance health and wellbeing; for
example, ‘intersectionality’. They will also discuss the kinds of policies that are most
likely to advance people’s health and wellbeing in the future.
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