Gender, sex and sexuality
- 14 Apr 2009
Since I came out as a gay man at 19 years old, I've been a user of home-based support, needs assessments, wheelchair assessments, physiotherapists as well as other health professionals and services, even rehabilitation at times. Every service provider, in my experience, has assumed I am heterosexual. Unless I actually say, ‘I'm a gay man', people assume I'm straight. That assumption operates at all levels of the organisation - from management, to administration, to individual staff. Read more »
- 14 Apr 2009
Polverino et al. (2008) conducted what was perhaps the first observational study of sex and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The results from this single case study were somewhat surprising and the authors highlighted how little we really know about this important aspect of quality of life in populations of people with chronic respiratory illness. Read more »
- 17 Mar 2007
Here’s an interesting question: Who do you think would do better in rehabilitation following a serious injury? A guy who conforms to traditional male roles – e.g. the strong, silent type who is not one to ask for help when he’s hurt, who believes that men should be in charge and who is uncomfortable at any suggestion of discussing emotions – OR a guy who does not conform to such roles – a ‘new-age snag’ or the 'metrosexual' perhaps? While there has been some theorisation in the past about which type of masculinity is more conducive to successful rehabilitation outcomes, these authors claim that theirs is the first study to collect data on such issues. Read more »
William Levack
