Pain and Prejudice (eBook)

How the Medical System Ignores Women—And What We Can Do About It

Gabrielle Jackson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
Greystone Books (Verlag)
978-1-77164-717-5 (ISBN)

Infos

[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 menShares the authors journey of fighting for an endometriosis diagnosisIn Pain and Prejudice, acclaimed investigative reporter Gabrielle Jackson takes readers behind the scenes of doctors offices, pharmaceutical companies, and research labs to show thatat nearly every level of healthcaremens health claims are treated as default, whereas womens 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 womens healthcare are penalized financially, as procedures performed on men pay higher. Meanwhile, women are reporting feeling ignored and dismissed at their doctors 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.

Autor

GABRIELLE JACKSON is an associate news editor at Guardian Australia. She was first diagnosed with endometriosis in 2001, and since 2015 she has been writing about how women’s pain is treated in modern healthcare systems.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Entspannung / Meditation / Yoga
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: abby norman • ask me about my uterus • beating endo • Bias • Big Pharma • books about endometriosis • books about women's health • chronic pain • Coronavirus • Covid-19 • diagnosis female • doctors • DOING HARM • elinor cleghorn • Endometriosis • equitable future • feminist • Healthcare • how we do harm • important • inferior how science got women wrong • in the kingdom of the sick • investigative reporting • Invisible Women • Journalism • living with endometriosis • long covid • Maya Dusenbery • Medical Research • misdiagnosis • Myths • Period Power • periods gone public • Personal narrative • porochista khakpour • self advocate • Sexism • sex matters • sick a memoir • stop endometriosis and pelvic pain • stunning revelations • the collected schizophrenias, esme weijun wang • the means of reproduction • The Undying • unwell women • vagina problems • Western healthcare systems
• ISBN-10: 1-77164-717-5 / 1771647175
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77164-717-5 / 9781771647175