2B. Misogyny, Discrimination and Abuse in Women and Children’s Health Care, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and in Medical Research. Sterilization, Whether Forced or Elective. Sick Women; Women with Disabillities. Post-menopausal women
Josephine Bartosch. “The abuse of disabled women often goes unseen.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/c9hkB
_____. “Rape crisis centers have sold out feminism.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/LDRn9
Julia Belluz and Nina Martin. “The extraordinary danger of being pregnant and uninsured in Texas: The state’s system for helping the uninsured thwarts women at every turn and encourages subpar care.” [2019]
https://archive.ph/wip/RDdYd
Cynthia Breheny. “Lies in women’s health.” [2023]
One woman experiences menstrual pain over decades and finally learns its true cause.
https://archive.ph/aobFS
Kelly Burrowes. "Gender bias in medicine and medical research is still putting women’s health at risk." [2021]
https://archive.ph/nesN2
Business Bliss Consultants FZE. "Women's health and gender bias in healthcare." [2018]
Literature review with extensive footnotes.
https://archive.ph/aQ0tl
Denis Campbell. “Women 32% more likely to die after operation by male surgeon, study reveals.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/IVvAI
Helen Carr. “Women have always been ‘hysterical’: Their pain has never been taken seriously.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/ySAiV
Raymond L. Daye. "Birthing expert says induced labor is overused." [2025]
https://archive.ph/wip/duMhn
Laura Donnelly. "NHS maternity ward negligence surges as midwives fail to listen to mothers: Experts say too many families are being forced to suffer 'heartbreaking' consequences as regulators warn of a deterioration in care.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/dUeZh
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If you know anything about the history of abuses of women by the medical profession, it's not a stretch to think that some of this "teaching" [in medical schools] is questionable, if not actually misogyny and unethical.
― Elinor Cleghorn. Unwell women: Misdiagnosis and myth in a man-made world
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Libby Emmons. "Biological male celebrated for 'breastfeeding' newborn while the mother hemorrhages post-childbirth.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/w3EOf
European Society of Cardiology. “Women more likely to die after heart attack than men.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/nY1u2
Tanya Gold. "The deadly omertà of childbirth: Why aren't women allowed to talk about how dangerous reproduction can be?" [2020]
https://archive.ph/S5jMA"
_____. Adam Kay’s dangerous misogyny: Women are reduced to orifices with imbeciles attached."
https://archive.ph/TyBdN
International Confederation of Midwives. "Obstetric violence, mistreatment, and violence against women in reproductive health services ." [2024]
https://archive.ph/wip/vraQH
Melissa Jeltsen. "Woman says police forced her to give birth in handcuffs: The woman claims she was shackled during her labor, over the objections of medical staff who told police the practice was illegal." [2018]
https://archive.ph/0nv5a
Lucy Leader. "Is La Leche League International promoting pedophilia?: If supporting men to let babies suckle on them isn’t child abuse, what is?" [2024]
https://archive.ph/wip/onlzo
Lesbians United. “Puberty suppression: Medicine or malpractice?” [2022]
https://lesbians-united.org/organizationMaterials/Puberty%20Suppression%20Medicine%20or%20Malpractice.pdf
Dr. Howard Markel. "In 1850, Ignaz Semmelweis saved lives with three words: Wash your hands." [2015]
https://archive.ph/XmKWC
Maypelsyrup. “Why saying ‘uterus havers’ and ‘cervix owners’ is medically dangerous for women, especially the most vulnerable women.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/hlJVi
Roger McFillin. "Antidepressants increase 130% for teen girls, drop 7% for boys." [2025]
https://archive.ph/s9J2u#selection-2143.0-2143.62
Medical News Today. “Gender bias in medical diagnosis.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/wip/NT8p3
Merope Mills. "This mother made six attempts to raise the alarm about her sick toddler. Doctors told her he’d be fine. They were fatally wrong: The death of her son, Micah, highlights the danger of medics ignoring parental concerns. ‘It was like they were gaslighting us,’ says Keri-Sue McManus." [2024]
https://archive.ph/mbbTh
Victoria Smith. "How disastrous births haunt women: Mothers are still mocked for wanting control.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/G1lzd
Ewan Somerville. “NHS U-turns on transgender plans for maternity care after midwives revolt: Those who opposed the ‘gender inclusive training’ said it was a ‘watershed moment’ for staff rooting out trans ideology from the inside.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/AncRE
Brianna Theobald. “A 1970 law led to mass sterilization of Native American women. That history still matters.” [2019]
https://archive.ph/cMtaE
Peg Tittle. “Sterilization: The personal and the political.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/emMzY
https://4w.pub/sterilization-the-personal-and-the-political/?ref=4w-latest-news-newsletter
Wendy Tuohy. “Dehumanised and violated: Women tell of ‘obstetric violence’ during childbirth.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/mBazZ
Laura Ungar. "Maternal deaths in the US more than doubled over two decades: Black mothers died at the highest rate.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/LxSPo
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Victims of gaslighting may experience a loss of mental equilibrium, anxiety, and depression. They may lose self-confidence and self-esteem, question the legitimacy of their illness, or wonder whether they’ll ever see a resolution of their issue. Feeling unheard and dismissed may also foster a woman’s distrust of the medical community as a whole and contribute to a pattern of delayed reporting, diagnosis and treatment.
― Renee Goyeneche, “Just Your Imagination? The Dangerous Gender Bias In Women’s Healthcare”
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Elinor Cleghorn. Unwell women: Misdiagnosis and myth in a man-made world. [2021] BOOK
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646468/unwell-women-by-elinor-cleghorn/
Alyson J. McGregor, M.D. Sex matters: How male-centric medicine endangers women’s health and what we can do about It. [2020] BOOK
https://www.alysonmcgregord.com/book
Robert S. Mendelsohn. Mal(e)practice: How doctors manipulate women. [rev. ed. 1982] BOOK
https://archive.org/details/malepracticehowd0000mend
Theodore G. Obenchain. Genius belabored: Childbed Fever and the tragic life of Ignaz Semmelweis. [2016] BOOK
https://archive.ph/UOe0A
Haider Warraich, M.D. The song of our scars: the untold story of pain. [2022] BOOK
Especially Chap. 8, “The Pain of the Powerless: Injustice and the Arc of Suffering.”
When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.
― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide