Multiple Medical Realities

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…

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