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This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails WomenBy Marieke Bigg

In a Nutshell

Sociologist and author Marieke Bigg explores how medicine fails to meet women's specific needs due to centuries of seeing the male body as the default.

Favorite Quote

We should always be suspicious of claims of gender neutrality, all too easily used to disguise the ways in which a male standard is upheld as normal, often better and definitely more important.

Marieke Bigg

Introduction

Medicine is supposedly neutral, focused solely on understanding and preserving the health of each individual body.

But even though they make up half of the world's population, women's bodies have never been equal in the eyes of medicine. Throughout history, the male body has been seen as the default, while women's bodies were a deviation from the 'norm.'

Marieke Bigg is a sociologist and author whose work focuses on the intersection of medicine and culture.

In her 2023 book, This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women, Bigg analyzes how women's bodies, pain, and pleasure are misunderstood and ignored because of long-standing biases in the medical field.

Here are the 3 key insights from this Hack

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Women’s bodies and experiences are underrepresented in medical research
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