How Modern Medicine Has Failed Women with Elinor Cleghorn
Factually! with Adam Conover
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Women's Health in the Nineteenth Century
In the 19th century, obstetrics and ginacology became of professional interest to male physicians. This is really when women's bodies became the objects of medical attention in the sense we know them today. So doctors, physicians, genocologists were specializing in trying to figure out those mysteries and mystifications thay sort have lurked within the female valvet. And by the end of the century, you know, germ theory emerges.
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