Advocacy

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eleanor cleghorn is a writer and advocate for people in pain. She says advocacy can cut through an antagonistic one-on-one dynamic when trying to seek treatment or diagnosis. "You're not going to start, you know, getting like, your power pose on and kind of going right on on" Check out her book at facty pod dot com, slash books.

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.