Medicine has always assumed a male patient, which is why it’s redundant to call something a men’s hospital and why it’s necessary to specify a women’s health center. Women are the “other” under patriarchy, and men the default.
Women weren’t even included in clinical trials in the US until 1993.
Medicine has always assumed a male patient, which is why it’s redundant to call something a men’s hospital and why it’s necessary to specify a women’s health center. Women are the “other” under patriarchy, and men the default.
Women weren’t even included in clinical trials in the US until 1993.
read more here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women’s_health
Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex covers a lot of ground about women being the “other” in case you wanted more on that.
Beautifully executed.