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Dr Stephanie Alice Baker on Influencers, Wellness Culture & Misinformation

Yeah Nah Pasaran!

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Do You Think the Anti-Vax Movement Is Driven by Mothers?

A lot of the countepultural movements that emerged in the seventies, in particular, were very critical of authority. They were resisting against very patriarchal, often very raceet, forms of authority. And and so you really see this rejection of institutionalized authority which bears a lot of similarity to the outhealth wellness influences to day. It's this common thread that is consistent across all these aspects. So with feminism, it's this emphasis on the right o bodily autonomy. You see this with natural birth movements, and lot of concerns with the interference of what they saw as this kind of male ale medical system at the time. But also broadly in terms of diagnosis and the antipsychiatry

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