In a turn that should not be all that surprising given that Teen Vogue has published on evidence-based sexual health and Cosmopolitan has published serious work on sexual harassment and assault, the young person’s fashion and beauty magazine Marie Claire has produced a really solid article by Kayla Webley Adler on the way that women are not well-served by the concepts, structures, and practices of our health care system. Here’s to the young readers who are hungry enough for such thoughts that the mass media are willing to provide them.
Another reason not to be surprised: their Twitter tagline is “If it matters to women, it’s in Marie Claire.”
Access to health care does matter to women. So, I guess so. Kudos, Marie Claire, and to Kayla Webley Adler on a well-written accessible article that raises some of the major feminist bioethics critiques of modern medicine.
Women Are Dying Because Doctors Treat Us Like Men: For years, physicians have referred to women’s healthcare as “bikini medicine” and assumed they can diagnose and treat both genders the same way. But it’s costing women their lives.
