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 threaten...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dusenbery, Maya (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
Edition:First Edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 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.