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️ CHAPTERS ️
00:00 Medical misogyny: is it all in your head? Them Fatales video essay
00:23 INTRO
02:27 HYSTERIA
06:50 EUGENICS AND WHITE PATRIARCHY
5:17 p.m. HORMONAL
11:20 p.m. LACK OF KNOWLEDGE
33:42 INTERLUDE: THE CRAZIEST THING A DOCTOR HAS EVER TOLD YOU
37:40 IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD (?)
45:48 SOLUTIONS (?) BE YOUR OWN ATTORNEY
47:58 CONCLUSIONS: HEALTH UNDER CAPITALISM
Selected BIBLIOGRAPHY (free full bibliography at https://www.patreon.com/posts/67188185)
Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery
Killing the Black Body by Dorothy E. Roberts
Pain and prejudice: a call to arms for women and their bodies by Gabrielle Jackson
Lower by Angela Saini
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez
Ill Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn
Fear of the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings
A 1970 law led to the mass sterilization of Native American women. This story still matters
https://time.com/5737080/native-american-sterilization-history/
Doctors' Worst Fears About Texas Abortion Law Come True
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/28/1083536401/texas-abortion-law-6-months?t1653999897783
The Women's Problem: How Male Bias in Medical Trials Ruined Women's Health
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/13/the-female-problem-male-bias-in-medical-trials
Eventually, the UK took notice of its rampant sexism in healthcare. And now?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/dec/23/finally-the-uk-has-noticed-its-rampant-sexism-in-healthcare-what-now
As a woman, have you ever felt like a doctor wasn't taking your pain seriously?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/laraparker/have-you-ever-had-a-doctor-take-you-less-seriously-because-y
16 Condescending Things Male Healthcare Professionals Have Actually Said To Women
https://www.buzzfeed.com/shelbyheinrich/women-male-doctors-wild
Interesting videos on the same topic
@jessicaoutofthecloset
Is medicine sexist?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?vBTsppjX5QJI
Medicine has always been sexist // The history of hysteria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?vk6H5Drov_uA
@DemystifyingMedicineMcMaster
Closing the Gap: Addressing Gender Inequalities in Healthcare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?vZ5IPshBl06Y
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