How Modern Medicine Has Failed Women with Elinor Cleghorn

Factually! with Adam Conover

English - January 12, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 64.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 2K ratings
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A deeply embedded idea in our culture is the sexist notion that men are the “default” human, and women the unknowable “other". Nowhere is this more visible than in the history of medicine, with disastrous consequences for women’s’ health. On the show this week to discuss her new book is Elinor Cleghorn, author of Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World. You can check out her book at factuallypod.com/books.

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