Invalid Women: Narratives of Women's Illness
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Invalid Women: Narratives of Women's Illness
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Western biomedicine has historically been dominated by male theorists and practitioners. How, then, has biomedical culture accounted for women’s bodies, health, and illness? For other bodies deemed non-normative, including queer, trans, and non-binary bodies? Recent reporting on women’s health issues and maternal mortality rates in the US, and the many personal narratives recounting inadequate attention to women-as-patients, suggests a deep-seated and ongoing problem with the way our medical system treats women.
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Rootstown, OH
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Invalid Women: Narratives of Women's Illness