Multiple Medical Realities
Sep 5, 2018 · 8 min read
I wanted to talk about what led to me pursuing a double major in college and specifically my interest in medical anthropology. It was mostly driven by unbalanced representation in classes I have heard on the history of healthcare. Rarely are women mentioned as having contributed to that history. It’s probably because women’s domestic work has always been discounted.
As I mentioned, I once spent a lot of time reading old medical texts. So I know that it is possible to read through everything written between 1600 and 1920 and get a very limited sense of the female contribution to…

