Hippocrates believed that uterus needed to be pregnant, needed to carry children in order to be healthful. So he endowed it with an s animate impulse, you know, an almost kind of sentient ability to go forth and get what it wanted. He believed that when it wasn't performing this, you kno ordained, sacred duty of being involved in the processes of reproduction, that it would shrivel.
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.
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