ABSTRACT
The financial system of healthcare culture supports the perpetual maintenance of the female body in the sick role. The influence of the medical system has expanded into labeling everyday human experiences, such as sexual orientation, as right or wrong, healthy or unhealthy, sick or not sick. Therapies, including drugs, that insurance covers are largely driven by standard practices and recommendations that are disseminated by controlling bodies of healthcare. Communication to women from the regulating bodies consistently defines their bodies as sick, in need of control, and always falling short of the male norm or constructed female aspiration. The woman who chooses to transgress must balance the seemingly paradoxical nature of US healthcare and its associated disciplines, forging a new path for herself and those who come after her, in rejecting object status within the Triangle and taking up a subject role in defining her own best existence.
