94 Do You Have A Migraine Personality with Joanna Kempner

On Health for Women

Aviva Romm

Alternative Health, Arts, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Today I talk with Joanna Kempner, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers, who is doing important work for gender politics and pain. In this episode of Natural MD Radio, we discuss the idea of a migraine personality, the historical concept of hysteria, and how this has all evolved to create a disparity in pain treatment for women -- especially women of color in the United States. We also talk about the societal factors that have led many women to feel guilty for speaking up about their pain, whether it be chronic pain caused by a condition like migraine or pain after childbirth, for example. We share the ways that the stigma of pain affects pain research and the implications that this has for the current and future treatment of women's pain. Listen to today's episode to learn why these disparities in pain treatment still exist and how we can combat them in our own lives. "If a drug worked well it would not create a situation in which it was exacerbating the very problem it was treating." - Joanna Kempner Join Dr. Aviva Romm as she dishes up a weekly dose of the whole truth on health and medicine. To learn more about this episode of Natural MD Radio go to https://avivaromm.com/094

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0:15.7	Welcome to Natural MD Radio, your place to hear the whole truth on health and medicine for women and children and get the tools you need to take back your health naturally starting now.
0:17.8	I'm Dr. Aviva Rong. My guest today is Joanna Kempner, the author of a really compelling book with a really
0:32.0	compelling title called Not Tonight, Migrane and the Politics of Gender and Health.
0:38.1	I came across Joanna's work when I was reading Maya Dues and Berry's book Do No Harm. I interviewed Maya in
0:45.2	episode 79 of Natural MD radio and I was so taken by Joanna's work and her areas of research that I contacted her and she graciously agreed to be on the
0:57.8	show today.
0:58.8	Joanna is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers, where she writes
1:04.8	researches and speaks about medicine, science, politics, gender, and the body. She's
1:11.6	also currently writing a book about citizen scientists, something that my
1:17.0	listeners know I talk about, but in this case are citizen scientists who use psychedelic medicines to treat pain.
1:25.0	Recently, many of these citizen science projects have gained the attention of
1:29.6	policy makers and academics paving the way for a growing number of FDA-approved clinical
1:35.3	trials on psychedelics, cannabis, and MDMA. Joanna received her PhD from
1:41.2	Penn's Department of Sociology, worked as a research associate at the
1:45.2	Center for Health and Well Being at Princeton University, and served as a postdoctoral fellow
1:50.5	in the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program at the University of
1:55.8	Michigan.
1:56.8	She's a recipient of Rutgers Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence,
2:01.8	one of Rutgers highest honors.
2:03.7	Joanna, thank you for the important work you're doing in gender, politics, and pain,
2:09.3	and thank you so much for being here with me today.
2:12.0	Thank you. It's a real pleasure.
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