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Popaganda: Women and Pain
This episode investigates patterns of both healthcare professionals and society at large dismissing, demeaning, and disbelieving women’s pain.
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The Mortal Ones: How Young Women Navigate Serious Illnesses
What comes to mind when we think about people with serious illnesses?
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Trauma Club: The Chronic Popularity of Illness Lit
Cure, remission, and rehabilitation provide the happy ending and death the sad one.
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Influx of Illness: Will Chronic-Illness Patients Get Their #MeToo Movement?
Much like sexual-violence survivors, chronic-illness patients also have whisper networks.
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Sick Women: How Women Took Control of Chronic Illness Narratives
After decades of erasure, the tide is turning.
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It’s All In Your Head: The Dangers of Disbelieving Female Pain
Female pain exists in a crossroad of stigma, disbelief, and misogyny.
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Performance of a Lifetime: On Invisible Illness, Gender, and Disbelief
There’s little room for a patient’s subjective experience in a medical system organized around quantifiable results.
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In Sickness
Our commitment to highlighting and hiring people with chronic illnesses won’t end after this series does.
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The 12th Step: Leslie Jamison is Reinventing the Addiction Memoir
The Recovering works like an AA meeting where people are sharing their stories in the hopes that others will identify with them.
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Carrying the Future: There’s No Birth Control in Future Dystopias
What Happened To Monday is the latest example of this tired trope.
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