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Cool thrift store find today. Good book and couldn't leave an uncorrected proof copy.

Recommended to me, it was a good perspective on women‘s health issues and how our symptoms are different and how doctors can be dismissive of women‘s health needs. However, I found many parts of it redundant and unnecessarily detailed. #health

This will make you mad and sad. If you‘re a woman living with chronic pain, none of it will be a surprise. The medical establishment is and always has been anti-woman. OTOH, Dusenberry quotes most of my fav authors on the topic. Worth the time.

Def read in print—audiobook narrator is awful.

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#thebibliophage2020
#booked2020 #redwhiteorbluetypeoncover
#nonfictionchallenge2020 #abouthealthcare

What I‘ve been doing / reading lately ... do not love this narrator, though. #audiopuzzling

Can't move, there's a cat on my lap. 😼

Reading the tagged for book club. Super interesting but maddening.

Currently reading for #ScienceSeptember and enjoying it so much, infuriated at the same time.

#nonfiction #science #medicine #womenshealth

Nonfiction audiobook readers rejoice! Oh my, this Audible 2 for 1 sale is terrific. See where my selections are going? (Well, at least 3 of the 4.) Plus, I accidentally figured out a cool Bitmoji trick (transparent backgrounds) that‘s been bugging me. So so simple.

#nonfiction #audiobook #audiblesale #bookdeals #bookhaul #greathaul

1. Beer garden, bbq, reading
2. Doing Harm
3. Celery
4. Now: no. Kid: Ran track in school; volleyball and tennis for fun.
5. You too!

#friyayintro @jesshowbooks

One of those books you should read if you‘re a woman, know a woman, or care about women‘s health.

I‘d like to read Medical Bondage and Invisible too, but I need a mental vacation now.

#women #health

Dusenbery combines history, medical studies, current literature, and hard data to show how women wait longer for diagnoses, receive inadequate pain management, and are often told they are imagining symptoms that are taken seriously in men, plus get excluded from studies and medical trials. Highly recommend.

#women #health #healthcare #medicineandliterature #medicine

A good read, but in small doses. Need time to absorb each section.

#women #womenshealth #womensbodies

This book was an infuriating look at the ways medicine has failed and continues to fail women. It was mostly well done, and I‘d definitely recommend it. Dara Rosenberg did a great job narrating—except she cannot pronounce French names to save her life. My biggest complaint was the subtly ableist language throughout; calling patients “sufferers” and saying people care “confined” to bed and wheelchair.

Listening to this book enrages me, so I have to do it in small doses. #24in48

A deep dive into decades-long practices in science and medicine that disadvantage women from the word go. Bad science, prejudicial and paternalistic attitudes by physicians and other care providers, and a persistent belief that women‘s self-reported symptoms are not to be trusted. Dusenbery gets into the actual published science behind all the bad science/medicine and how the tides are slowly beginning to turn.

The shade here burns 🔥