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The pain gap : how sexism and racism in healthcare kill women / by Anushay Hossain.

Hossain, Anushay, (author.).

Summary:
Explore real women's tales of healthcare trauma and medical misogyny with this meticulously researched, in-depth examination of the women's health crisis in America-and what we can do about it. Growing up in Bangladesh in the 1980s, the concept of women's healthcare hardly existed. Hossain was relieved to deliver her baby in the US. But things started to go awry from the minute she stepped in the hospital, and after thirty hours of labor, Hossain ran a fever of 104 degrees, and as she shook and trembled uncontrollably, the doctors finally performed an emergency C-section. Her experience put her on a journey to explore, understand, and share how women-- especially women of color-- are dismissed to death by systemic sexism in American healthcare. The result is an eye-opening call to revolutionize women's healthcare.

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  • ISBN: 9781982177775 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 1982177772 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xix, 279 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Tiller Press hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Tiller Press, 2021.

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Foreword -- Introduction -- The first feminist I ever knew -- A Bangladeshi girl on Capitol Hill -- A tale as old as time -- Invisible conditions -- We don't know what we don't know -- Pregnancy in a pandemic -- Seeking alternatives -- How to be your own best health advocate -- The truth about treatment for women of color -- Conclusion.

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Subject: Health > Sex differences.
Women's health services > United States.
Sex discrimination in medicine.
Discrimination in medical care > United States.
Women > Health and hygiene > United States.

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