Factually! with Adam Conover

How Modern Medicine Has Failed Women with Elinor Cleghorn

Jan 12, 2022

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How to Seduce a Uterus Back to Natural Condition?

04:24

Is There a Systemic Bias in Health Care?

05:16

Women of Color in Medical Settings

04:21

Introduction

3min

Unwell Women, Misdiagnosis and Myth

4min

Is There a Systemic Bias in Health Care?

5min

Hippocrates, the Man Who Rationalized Medicine

3min

The Hungry Uterus

2min

Is the Uterus Tethered in Place?

2min

How to Seduce a Uterus Back to Natural Condition?

4min

Is Your Body Controlling You?

2min

What Is It Like to Live in a Body?

2min

10.

Is Pain Really a Human Sensation?

2min

11.

Is the Pain Scale a One to Ten?

2min

12.

The History of Women's Health

4min

13.

Women's Health in the Nineteenth Century

3min

14.

The Vaginal Speculum and Its Importance

3min

15.

Is This a Tool for Peering Inside?

3min

16.

The Relationship Between Men and Women in the 21st Century

3min

17.

Hysteria

2min

18.

Hysteria Was a Punitive Diagnosis

3min

19.

The Effects of Old Mythologies on Women's Health

4min

20.

What Is Endometriosis?

4min

21.

Women of Color in Medical Settings

4min

22.

Do You Feel Progress Is Being Made?

2min

23.

Do You Have Any Thoughts for Women Who Are in This Situation?

2min

24.

Advocacy

3min

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.