University 'Feminist Health' Course Questions whether Disease is 'Subjective' or Not

With the rise of radical feminism, identity politics, and postmodernism, we're slowly being dragged away from an objective reality, into a new paradigm of subjectivity.

Starting in the Fall of 2018, The University of Massachusetts-Amherst will offer its students a course entitled: Feminist Health Politics, that explores "what makes health a matter of feminism?" 

The course outline states “In Feminist Health Politics, we will examine how health becomes defined, and will question whether health and disease are objectively measured conditions or subjective states.” The course will also examine “why and how standards and adjudications of health vary according to gender, race, sexuality, class, and nationality”.

Some sanity is salvage in the end of the course description, where it asserts “Additionally, we will explore how knowledge about health is created; how environmental conditions, social location, politics, and economic conditions affect health”. (The whole course should been premised around this notion, rather than debating whether having a disease is a “subjective state”).

Is Alzheimer’s just a “subjective state”? Is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) just something someone feels? This idea that disease could be a “subjective state” is idiotic. One either has a brain tumour, or they don’t. If someone has pink eye for example, the individual can be measured using  objective criteria to discover what is causing inflammation to occur around the eye. Disease exists in a distinguishable objective reality, detached from belief, or subjectivity, and reinforced by objective truth. 

It blows my mind that such a prestigious institution (ranked number 75 on the national university ranking list) would endorse this nonsensical course. It's identity politics, and radical feminism run a muck. 

The University will also be offering a course simply titled: Trans gender, where it seeks (among other listed goals) to examine how "subjectivities" are shaped by "Western medical ideologies and technologies".

Imagine your doctor telling you that the pain you've been feeling is just your personal belief, rather than something that be diagnosed.