Doing harm the truth about how bad medicine and lazy science leave women dismissed, misdiagnosed, and sick
"In this shocking, hard-hitting expose in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the editorial director of Feministing.com, reveals how gender bias infects every level of medicine and healthcare today--leading to inadequate, inappropriate, and even dangerous treatment that threate...
| Main Author: | Dusenbery, Maya (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Overlooked and dismissed: a systemic problem
- The knowledge gap
- The trust gap
- Part 2. Invisible women in a "male model" system
- Heart disease and other life-threatening emergencies
- Autoimmune disease and the long search for a diagnosis
- Part 3. Neglected diseases: the disorders formerly known as hysteria
- Chronic pain: "pain is real when you get other people to believe in it"
- The curse of Eve: when being sick is "normal"
- Contested illnesses: when diseases are "fashionable"
- Conclusion.