Heather Guidone, program director for Center for Endometriosis Care, talks to us about the misogynist history of women’s healthcare and how women’s pain has been both normalized and dismissed with devastating consequences.
Some links from Heather:
Center for Endometriosis Care: https://centerforendo.com/
Society for Menstrual Cycle Research: https://www.menstruationresearch.org/
The Menstrual Health Hub: https://mhhub.org/
Some others I may not have mentioned on air but are quite good:
https://www.instagram.com/femtruth.youth
https://theendometriosissummit.com/
Books (Amazon links for no other reason than ease of access; I don’t earn anything from the referral and they are available at other sellers as well):
The Palgrave Handbook on Menstrual Cycle Studies https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-15-0614-7
“Doing Harm” by Maya Dusenberry https://www.amazon.com/Doing-Harm-Medicine-Dismissed-Misdiagnosed/dp/0062470809
“Unwell Women” by Elinor Cleghorn https://www.amazon.com/Unwell-Women-Misdiagnosis-Man-Made-World/dp/0593182952
“Medical Bondage” by Dr Deirdre Cooper Owens https://www.amazon.com/Medical-Bondage-Origins-American-Gynecology/dp/0820351350
“Good Girl, Bad Period” – an upcoming release by Silvia Young https://www.amazon.com/Good-Girl-Bad-Period-Endometriosis-ebook/dp/B09TH8C1ZK
Gabrielle Jackson’s “Pain and Prejudice” https://www.amazon.com/Pain-Prejudice-Gabrielle-Jackson/dp/0349424551