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How Modern Medicine Has Failed Women with Elinor Cleghorn
Factually! with Adam Conover
Hysteria
Greek word for uterus, for womb, is hysteria. They used that word because it meant uterus. And so the symptoms of the uterus were hysteric symptoms. Pass forward to about the seventeenth century, and hysteria, as it wasn't ever a disease,. It was a diagnostic category invented by male physicians to explain women's inexplicable symptoms. The term 'hysteria' has three different meanings: one very medical, one pseudo medical, and one just purely emotional riht.
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