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How Modern Medicine Has Failed Women with Elinor Cleghorn

Factually! with Adam Conover

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In western culture, a woman is like a man with something else added to it. In the judaeo christian bible, the first woman, eve, was created from the rib of the first man, adam. And nowhere is this idea more obvious than in the history of medicine. Male doctors have treated women as some sort of strange creature driven by emotions and forces beyond male ken. So where did these ideas come from, and how did they persist over the centuries? And who are the folks who ere fighting against them all along the way?

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