Medical Women

Author : Gabrielle Jackson
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781771647175

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Pain and Prejudice by Gabrielle Jackson Pdf

“[A] powerful account of the sexism cooked into medical care ... will motivate readers to advocate for themselves.”—Publishers Weekly STARRED Review A groundbreaking and feminist work of investigative reporting: Explains why women experience healthcare differently than men Shares the author’s journey of fighting for an endometriosis diagnosis In Pain and Prejudice, acclaimed investigative reporter Gabrielle Jackson takes readers behind the scenes of doctor’s offices, pharmaceutical companies, and research labs to show that—at nearly every level of healthcare—men’s health claims are treated as default, whereas women’s are often viewed as a-typical, exaggerated, and even completely fabricated. The impacts of this bias? Women are losing time, money, and their lives trying to navigate a healthcare system designed for men. Almost all medical research today is performed on men or male mice, making most treatments tailored to male bodies only. Even conditions that are overwhelmingly more common in women, such as chronic pain, are researched on mostly male bodies. Doctors and researchers who do specialize in women’s healthcare are penalized financially, as procedures performed on men pay higher. Meanwhile, women are reporting feeling ignored and dismissed at their doctor’s offices on a regular basis. Jackson interweaves these and more stunning revelations in the book with her own story of suffering from endometriosis, a condition that affects up to 20% of American women but is poorly understood and frequently misdiagnosed. She also includes an up-to-the-minute epilogue on the ways that Covid-19 are impacting women in different and sometimes more long-lasting ways than men. A rich combination of journalism and personal narrative, Pain and Prejudice reveals a dangerously flawed system and offers solutions for a safer, more equitable future.

Author : Elinor Cleghorn
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780593182963

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Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn Pdf

A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women’s health—from the earliest medical ideas about women’s illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases—brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative. Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a possible pregnancy. As Elinor learned to live with her unpredictable disease she turned to history for answers, and found an enraging legacy of suffering, mystification, and misdiagnosis. In Unwell Women, Elinor Cleghorn traces the almost unbelievable history of how medicine has failed women by treating their bodies as alien and other, often to perilous effect. The result is an authoritative and groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between women and medical practice, from the "wandering womb" of Ancient Greece to the rise of witch trials across Europe, and from the dawn of hysteria as a catchall for difficult-to-diagnose disorders to the first forays into autoimmunity and the shifting understanding of hormones, menstruation, menopause, and conditions like endometriosis. Packed with character studies and case histories of women who have suffered, challenged, and rewritten medical orthodoxy—and the men who controlled their fate—this is a revolutionary examination of the relationship between women, illness, and medicine. With these case histories, Elinor pays homage to the women who suffered so strides could be made, and shows how being unwell has become normalized in society and culture, where women have long been distrusted as reliable narrators of their own bodies and pain. But the time for real change is long overdue: answers reside in the body, in the testimonies of unwell women—and their lives depend on medicine learning to listen.

Author : L. Whaley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230295179

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Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800 by L. Whaley Pdf

Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies the role, contributions and challenges faced by women healers in France, Spain, Italy and England, including medical practice among women in the Jewish and Muslim communities, from the later Middle Ages to approximately 1800.

Author : Sophia Jex-Blake
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382189327

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Medical Women by Sophia Jex-Blake Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Kristine Swenson
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826264312

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Medical Women and Victorian Fiction by Kristine Swenson Pdf

In Medical Women and Victorian Fiction, Kristine Swenson explores the cultural intersections of fiction, feminism, and medicine during the second half of the nineteenth century in Britain and her colonies by looking at the complex and reciprocal relationship between women and medicine in Victorian culture. Her examination centers around two distinct though related figures: the Nightingale nurse and the New Woman doctor. The medical women in the fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell (Ruth), Wilkie Collins (The Woman in White), Dr. Margaret Todd (Mona McLean, Medical Student), Hilda Gregg (Peace with Honour), and others are analyzed in relation to nonfictional discussions of nurses and women doctors in medical publications, nursing tracts, feminist histories, and newspapers. Victorian anxieties over sexuality, disease, and moral corruption came together most persistently around the figure of a prostitute. However, Swenson takes as her focus for this volume an opposing figure, the medical woman, whom Victorians deployed to combat these social ills. As symbols of traditional female morality informed and transformed by the new social and medical sciences, representations of medical women influenced public debate surrounding women's education and employment, the Contagious Diseases Acts, and the health of the empire. At the same time, the presence of these educated, independent women, who received payment for performing tasks traditionally assigned to domestic women or servants, inevitably altered the meaning of womanhood and the positions of other women in Victorian culture. Swenson challenges more conventional histories of the rise of the actual nurse and the woman doctor by treating as equally important the development of cultural representations of these figures.

Author : Marguerite Wykoff Zapoleon,United States. Women's Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Physician, Roman
ISBN : UIUC:30112104138984

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The Outlook for Women in Occupations in the Medical Services by Marguerite Wykoff Zapoleon,United States. Women's Bureau Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015051832239

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Women's Health in the Medical School Curriculum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marguerite Wykoff Zapoleon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UCAL:B4211144

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The Outlook for Women in Occupations in the Medical and Other Health Services ... by Marguerite Wykoff Zapoleon Pdf

Author : Delese Wear
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438423432

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Women in Medical Education by Delese Wear Pdf

Women in Medical Education combines personal narratives written by sixteen women medical educators who, as clinicians, basic scientists, administrators, and medical humanities faculty, write of their experiences with students, patients, colleagues, and administrators. Their narratives reflect the issues confronting women in the medical academy today, including working in situations where power relations are embedded and enacted daily in the ethos of the institution; where rigid disciplinary boundaries do not include or invite inquiry into gender, race, ethnicity, or class; where integrating one's personal and work life often seems overwhelming. Yet their stories reflect the success and recognition that women in academic medicine have achieved. The book includes essays written by Beth Alexander, Janet Bickel, Dale G. Blackstock, Kate H. Brown, Lucy M. Candib, Pamela Charney, Frances Conley, Leah J. Dickstein, Jacalyn Duffin, Deborah Jones, Perri Klass, Mary Mahowald, Marian Gray Secundy, Marjorie S. Sirridge, Rebekah Wang-Cheng, and the editor.

Author : King-Thom Chung
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-24
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0786458178

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Women Pioneers of Medical Research by King-Thom Chung Pdf

While most laymen could recognize Florence Nightingale as the founder of modern nursing, it’s doubtful they could likewise identify Louise Pearce as one of the primary researchers in the cure for African Sleeping Sickness or Anna W. Williams as the discoverer of the diphtheria antitoxin. This book profiles 25 women who have made significant contributions to medical research, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lydia Folger Fowler, Virginia Apgar, and Rosalind Franklin, among others. Each profile includes a general introduction and covers the woman’s childhood or family background, her formal education, her most valuable contributions to the field, and the important events or persons which influenced her life and career.

Author : Dale DeBakcsy
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399069007

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A History of Women in Medicine and Medical Research by Dale DeBakcsy Pdf

In the nineteenth century, a small but dedicated group of European and American women rose to agitate for the inclusion of women in the medical profession. It is a historic tale that we have told and retold for decades, but it is far from where the story of women as physicians and healers begins. Stretching back into deepest antiquity, we possess accounts of women who were consulted by emperors and paupers alike for their medical expertise. They were surgeons, apothecaries, midwives, university lecturers, and medical researchers in correspondence with the most learned societies of their time. And then it all came crashing down. A History of Women in Medicine and Medical Research is the story of the women who participated in that early Golden Age, and of a medical establishment closing ranks against them so effectively that, by the early Victorian era, they not only were barred from practicing medicine, but from so much as stepping into a classroom where medical topics were being discussed. It is the story of that intrepid band of reformers and pioneers who built back the women's medical profession from the ashes and constructed a thriving new community of researchers and practitioners who within a century had retaken not only the ground that had been lost, but boldly advanced to levels of fame and achievement unimaginable to any previous era. Told through in-depth accounts of the lives of the pioneers and practitioners who built and rebuilt the women's medical movement, this title dives into the lives of not only legendary figures like Florence Nightingale, Gertrude Elion, Rosalyn Yalow, and Elizabeth Blackwell, but visits women the world over whose medical contributions broke down doors and advanced the cause of women's and world health, like the revolutionary medieval physician Trota of Salerno, the pioneering eighteenth century midwife and businesswoman Madame du Coudray, the microbiological research trailblazer Mary Putnam Jacobi, and the HIV researcher and world epidemic response coordinator Francoise Barre-Sinoussi. With over 140 stories spanning three millennia of global medicine, this book shines a light on the unknown heroes, towering discoveries, tragic missteps, and profound struggles that have accompanied the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the women's medical profession.

Author : Edward C. Atwater
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580465717

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Women Medical Doctors in the United States Before the Civil War by Edward C. Atwater Pdf

An invaluable reference work chronicling the lives of over 200 women who received medical degrees in the United States before the Civil War.

Author : United States Commission on Civil Rights. Colorado Advisory Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Medical education
ISBN : UCR:31210000706455

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Access to the Medical Profession in Colorado by Minorities and Women by United States Commission on Civil Rights. Colorado Advisory Committee Pdf

Author : L. Bryder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230251106

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Women's Bodies and Medical Science by L. Bryder Pdf

An analysis of a scandal involving a doctor accused of allowing a number of women to develop cervical cancer from carcinoma in situ as part of an experiment he had been conducting since the 1960s into conservative treatment of the disease, to more broadly explore dramatic changes in medical history in the second half of the twentieth century.

Author : Susan Broomhall
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : France
ISBN : 0719062861

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Women's Medical Work in Early Modern France by Susan Broomhall Pdf

This text combines detailed research with a clear presentation of the existing literature of women's medical work, making it useful to students of gender and medical history.