Intersectionality and Health Care: Support for the Diversity Turn in Research and Practice
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The health care field (including feminist health care) recognizes that diversity is an issue. Evidence-based knowledge is needed to incorporate diversity into health care practices, but how best to conceptualize diversity remains a problem. Recent feminist scholarship highlights the need to conceptualize diversity in terms of intersectionality, but most conventional health care research that is diversity-sensitive only includes one or two social/identity categories. Intersectionality brings with it certain benefits but also certain challenges. The challenges include addressing what phenomena are presumed to intersect; how power relations can be included; and how complexity can be dealt with. After exploration of current research practices and solutions, we discuss the possible contributions of Intersectionality Theory to the diversity turn in health care.
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