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How Modern Medicine Has Failed Women with Elinor Cleghorn

Factually! with Adam Conover

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Hysteria Was a Punitive Diagnosis

Hysteria reduced women to a gendered assumption that whenever they're unwell, it's purely because of the nature of being female. It remained in no use as a diagnostic category, at least until the fifties. And up until about the 19 eighties, in some contexts were say it hovered around. Hysteria is the category applied to women, you know, si, it's discriminatry knowledge imposed upon them.

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