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niyad

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17. But the misogynist male culture in medicine DOES NOT WANT TO.
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 09:42 PM
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The entire history of "modern" medicine has been one of ignorance and indifference, if not outright hostility, to females. Think about how, for example, major drug trials have NOT included women, including that damned framingham one. Think about how drug trials that actually, quite reluctantly, include women, do NOT assess the difference between pre-and-post-menopausal women. The list goes on and on.

There was a fascinating, depressing book in the '70's by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English titled ""Witches, Midwives, and Nurses", that gave a brief history of how the maales wrested control of "healing" away from the women, and turned it into the nightmare we see today.

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