Elianne Riska

TL;DR: This paper explores women's position in medicine in the Nordic countries, where the medical profession will soon be gender-balanced, and offers three sociological perspectives as theoretical explanations for the gender segregation of medicine and as diagnostic paradigms and potential heuristic devices to aid women's empowerment as medical providers.

TL;DR: Recent studies suggest that lifestyle choices rather than merely career advancement influence both female and male surgeons' career plans, and the importance of role models and mentors in setting the career goals of medical students and residents has recently been confirmed.

TL;DR: The medicalization thesis derives from a classic theme in the field of medical sociology and addresses the broader issue of the power of medicine – as a culture and as a profession – to define and regulate social behavior.

TL;DR: It is argued that the fall of Type A man began when the construct was coopted by the psychologists whose efforts to measure the psychological dimensions of the coronary-prone personality and behavioral pattern eventually fragmented the concept.

TL;DR: It is shown that the construction of Type A man rested on the medicalisation of the core values of traditional masculinity, while the term ‘hardy man’ demedicalised and legitimised these values.