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1) Read
The Gender Gap in Pain, then re-read the article thinking critically about it. Answer the following questions in short-answer
form. The article is
found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/opinion/sunday/women-and-the-treatment-of-pain.html
A) Can you
summarize the article in 2-3 sentences?
B) Find the best sentence that illustrates the issue/problem.
Copy and paste that sentence. (How do you quote a passage from an article into a written assignment? Show me you know how to
do that. Or that you can look that information up on the OWL/Purdue
website you will use for MLA Formatting throughout the quarter.
That link is found in our syllabus!) To
which subjects/social problems might this article be
relevant?
C) Who is the intended audience? Who do you think actually reads
this kind of article? What makes you think this? Who
would be interested in reading this article?
D) Who is the author? What authority does the author have? Are they an expert? What is the author's relationship to the content
of the article?
E) What is the purpose of this information? Entertainment?
Persuasion? Etc. A mixture? Why do you think that?
F) What evidence
does the source provide? Stats? Data? Defending
points?
G) How timely
is the article? In other words, when was it written? From what years
are the data and studies referenced in the article?
H) Does the article include references?
Of course! Which organizations, studies, researchers, institutes, etc. are
referenced? List them!
I) Is the information balanced? Or biased? A mixture? Why so?
J) Any multimodal
elements in the article? Remember, a multimodal is any chart, graph, photo,
audio, video, etc. that conveys information. Basically, anything that ISN'T
simple text. Take a close look at it/them. Analyze it/them. Why were they
included? What do they argue? Do they help support the article's arguments?
K) Where do you think
this article was published? Newspaper?
Magazine? Book? Journal? Is it a popular article or
a scholarly article? Why do you think so?
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An
Analysis of “The Gender Gap in Pain” Article
The
overall idea of the article is to articulate how different genders respond to
pain and medication. Women are portrayed as having a high frequency to report
pain, but they are also most likely to experience negative implications upon
consuming pain-relieving drugs. The author further stipulates that, since pain
is a subjective and self-reported aspect, many women are ignored and denied a
chance for treatment.
The
sentence that best illustrates the problem is, "It found that not only did
women appear to suffer more pain, but that women’s reports of pain were more
likely to be dismissed” (Laurie).
I
think this article specifically target women as the primary audience because they
are the one considered as victims. I believe women are the target because, at
the end of the article, the author, being a woman, narrates her experience on
how she tried to explain her pains to different health care practitioners, and
she was ignored. Also, women would be interested in reading this article to
understand how they can deal with pain and drugs that seem to work against
their hormones.
The
author is Laurie Edwards. She
currently holds the role of an associate teaching professor in the writing
program at Northeastern University. She has also written famous books such as
"In the Kingdom of the Sick…" Therefore, based on her experience, I
would think she is skilled in talking about the selected subject. Also, she has
a relation with the article in that she has also undergone the same trouble of
trying to explain her pains to medical experts who ended up disregarding her.
The purpose of the information is to sensitize
and educate. The author intends to inform people about gender diversity on the
matter of access to medical services and differences in body reactions upon
consuming some pain-relieving medicine. Mainly, one will understand what they
are likely to encounter when seeking medication services.
