#85 - Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick with feminist author Maya Dusenbery
Jun 19, 2018
As part of my women’s health series, I chat to Maya Dusenbery about her new book, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick.
We spend our conversation talking about the book and all that she discovered about the history of ignoring and/or disbelieving women’s pain and the deep, systemic problems that underlie women’s experiences of feeling dismissed by the medical system.
Editor of the award-winning site Feministing.com, Maya brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with doctors and researchers, and personal stories from women across the country to provide the first comprehensive, accessible look at how sexism in medicine harms women today.
About Maya
Maya Dusenbery is a journalist, editor of the
feminist site Feministing.com, and the author
of the book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy
Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick. She has been
a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific
Standard magazine. Her work has also appeared in publications like
Cosmopolitan.com, HuffPost, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch magazine, Teen
Vogue, New York Post, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia
Project. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked at the
National Institute for Reproductive Health.
Follow Maya
Website | Twitter | Book
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