Posts tagged Medicine
Conversations: Katie Engelhart
Conversations: Katie Engelhart

Journalist Katie Englehart speaks about her book The Inevitable: Dispatches On The Right to Die, and the murky ethical dilemmas of medical aid in dying.

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ConversationsThe NocturnistsAutonomy, Medicine, ageism, death, dignity, euthanasia, medicalaidindying, mentalcapacity, mentalillness, pain, palliativecare, physicianassisteddeath, rationalsuicide, righttodie, journalism
Conversations: Elinor Cleghorn
Conversations: Elinor Cleghorn

Author Dr. Elinor Cleghorn speaks about Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World, exploring how the medical profession has been grappling with the problem of gender bias and how the symptoms of women are seen as atypical, or worse, are minimized, dismissed or ignored.

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ConversationsThe NocturnistsMedicine, autoimmune_disorder, women, female, gender_bias, healthcare, lupus, misogyny, physician, sexism, uterus, hysteria, illness, disease, symptoms, pain, anatomy, misdiagnosis, myth, medical_history