The project investigates the role of the concept of gender in the treatment of three chronic conditions: endometriosis, fibromyalgia and hormonal migraine. We explore the effects of healthcare structures, personalization and rationalization of medicine, public debates about pain medication and global drug shortages on how chronic pain is managed. The project theorizes chronic pain as an embodied, socially debated phenomenon and explores the temporality of chronicity through questions of age.
Exploring the futures of gendered chronic illness
The GenDis project conducts interdisciplinary social research on the changing conditions of managing and living with gendered chronic pain.
A multi-sited social study
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The research is funded by the Research Council of Finland and Kone Foundation.
