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Podcast: New Books in Medicine
Episode: Alyson McGregor, "Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health" (Hachette, 2020)
Description: Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do About It (Hachette, 2020) tackles one of the most urgent, yet unspoken issues facing women's health care today: all models of medical research and practice are based on male-centric models that ignore the unique biological and emotional differences between men and women -- an omission that can endanger women's lives. The facts surrounding how male-centric medicine impacts women's health every day are chilling: in the ER, women are more likely to receive a psychiatric diagnosis with regard to opioid use, while men are more likely to...