By Judith A. Lewis
Old, sociocultural, mental, and biophysiological features of women's improvement.
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Over the last 150 years, however, with the expansion of the health care industry into the marketplace, the patriarchal world view has been tightly consolidated into the conceptual framework of modern health care delivery systems. Health definitions and roles have been transferred from female to male responsibility, as the old network of women's remedies, "witch"-healers, and granny-midwives (Ehrenreich & English, 1973) gave way to the medical academy and the hegemony of male physicians (Scutt, 1990).