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The Social Construction of Medical Knowledge
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Medical knowledge itself is socially constructed, meaning it can reflect and reproduce inequalities of gender, class, race, and ethnicity across eras.
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Medical advice given to pregnant women has shifted substantially across generations, revealing the era's assumptions as much as its evidence.
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Calling medical knowledge socially constructed is not a claim that all medical findings are equally arbitrary or wrong.