
How Modern Medicine Has Failed Women with Elinor Cleghorn
Factually! with Adam Conover
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Women of Color in Medical Settings
Medical racism spun a different narrative about the pain and illnesses of women of color. The misbelief that white women, who have access to colonial, uno leisurely colonial treats, are very refined and they're capable of feeling all this pain. Women of colour were the defusi was perpetuated that they were invulnerable to pain. And we see it as well in the woeful rates of maternal mortality in both us. Thath's been done because we haven't adequately faced up to the legacy of medical races.
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