How Modern Medicine Has Failed Women with Elinor Cleghorn
Factually! with Adam Conover
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Is This a Tool for Peering Inside?
The stethoscope was a huge advance in medicine, because suddenly you could get an internal view without having to cut somebody open. Some doctors did say it would help us move beyond the ignorance and superstition of the past. The majority view was really pivoted around this kind of strange sexual politics where medicine is completely dominated by men. And that's then what impedes the progress from being objective and being straightforward tit's always absorbing the social dynamics between men and women y whatever particular time these advances were taking place.
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