Article ID: CBB612925238

The Case Against the Doctors: Gender, Authority, and Critical Science Writing in the 1960s (2020)

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In the 1960s, widespread popular-cultural deference to the authority of science and medicine in the United States began to wane as a generation of journalists and activists reevaluated and criticized researchers and physicians. This article uses the career of feminist journalist Barbara Seaman to show the role that the emerging genre of critical science writing played in this broader cultural shift. First writing from her position as a mother, then as the wife of a physician, and finally as a credentialed science writer, Seaman advanced through distinct categories of journalistic authority throughout the 1960s. An investigation of Seaman’s early years in the profession also vividly demonstrates the roles that gender and professional expertise played in both constricting and permitting new forms of critique during this era.

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Authors & Contributors
O'Donnell, Kelly Suzanne
Moran, Rachel Louise
Susanne Schmidt
Ariane Hanemaayer
Prosperetti, Elisa
Shuster, Stef M.
Concepts
Medicine and society
Political activists and activism
Authority of medicine
Journalism
Medicine
Feminism
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
South Africa
Canada
Great Britain
United Kingdom
North America
Institutions
Scottish Union of Mental Patients
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