The Effects of Old Mythologies on Women's Health

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Our social beliefs today must leak into our medical knowledge in the same way. The most measurable ones are when women and men express pain. And of course, the very real effect of these assumptions is that complex diseases often go mis diagnosed or undiagnosed. So now really is the time to disentangle that sort of antiquated gendered stuff from medicine as a science in an art form.

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.