the truth about how bad medicine and lazy science leave women dismissed, misdiagnosed, and sick
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Dusenbery, Maya
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- VS 39 2019
- Thesaurus
- geneeskunde, gezondheidszorg, patiënten, ziekten, seksisme, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- First published as hardcover by HarperCollins in 2018. An analysis of gender bias in medical treatment in the United States. The author brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with doctors and researchers, and personal stories from women to provide a look at how sexism in medicine harms women. Contains the following parts and chapters: Part 1: Overlooked and dismissed: a systematic problem : The knowledge gap : The trust gap : Part 2: Invisible women in a 'male model' system : Heart disease and other life-threatening emergencies : Autoimmune disease and the long search for a diagnosis : Part 3: Neglected diseases: the disorders formerly known as hysteria : Chronic pain: 'Pain is real when you get othr people to believe in it' : The curse of Eve: when being sick is 'normal' : Contested illnesses: when diseases are 'fashionable'.