Is This a Tool for Peering Inside?

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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.

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.