Full name: Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick

Author: Maya Dusenbery Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Feminism, Non Fiction, Science, Health Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780062470805 0062470809

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 threatens women's lives and well-being. Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with experts within and outside the medical establishment, and personal stories from regular women to provide the first comprehensive, accessible look at how sexism in medicine harms women today. In addition to offering a clear-eyed explanation of the root causes of this insidious and entrenched bias and laying out its effects, she suggests concrete steps we can take to cure it. Similar books: Ask Me About My Uterus by Abby Norman On Immunity by Eula Biss Cure by Jo Marchant Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre The Panic Virus by Seth Mnookin Volume Control by David Owen The Family That Couldn't Sleep by D. T. Max The Red Market by Scott Carney How We Do Harm by Otis Webb Brawley Quackery by Lydia Kang Every Patient Tells a Story by Lisa Sanders The Vagina Bible by Jennifer Gunter The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth by Thomas Morris Natural Causes by Barbara Ehrenreich The Woman Who Swallowed a Toothbrush by Rob Myers Breasts by Florence Williams The Obesity Myth by Paul Campos Flow by Elissa Stein The China Study by T. Colin Campbell In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan