Living at the intersection of illness, healing, and discrimination: care for black women with physical and mental health conditions
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In this thesis, I will argue that the identity of Black women with mental and physical health conditions affects how others perceive and treat them in clinical, social, and occupational spaces, which in turn influences the paths these women take to seek healing. Black women choose to identify to various degrees with social categories such as disease and race. The identities that an individual accepts affect how they are perceived, and this perception of who they are, which may or may not match with their internal beliefs, affects how they are treated. This extends to clinical spaces, where treatment of a patient is reflected by the doctor-patient relationship. It also extends to social and career-based settings, where women experience acceptance or rejection due to the way others see them. This perception-based treatment and the identity that these women claim factor into the importance of certain healing methods in their lives.
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