From hysteria to wandering wombs: women and medicine through history
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🗓️ 3 July 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time. |
| 0:05.0 | A bit of a different thing going on this week. |
| 0:07.3 | You've been immature and you've lied. |
| 0:10.3 | And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me. |
| 0:13.9 | I was trying to manipulate you. |
| 0:15.7 | Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window. |
| 0:18.1 | I know, I'd be like, are you joking? |
| 0:20.6 | I don't know. |
| 0:21.7 | I guess you'd have to ask. Someone that has sex. Someone that has sex. Right. And remember, |
| 0:27.5 | it's just between us. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's |
| 0:45.7 | best-selling history magazine. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm Ellie Corthorn. |
| 1:02.3 | From medieval physicians who thought a woman's womb could move around inside her body when distressed, |
| 1:08.5 | to Victorian doctors who used hysteria as a catch-well term for all kinds of health issues, |
| 1:12.6 | women have been frequently misdiagnosed and mistreated throughout history. In her new book Unwell Women, historian Eleanor Clegghorn charts the story, and I spoke to her |
| 1:19.8 | to find out more. Unwell women is a fascinating journey through women's medical history, which |
| 1:25.7 | reveals that there's been a long ingrained gender pain gap. |
| 1:30.0 | So before we go any further, what do we mean when we're talking about the gender pain gap? |
| 1:34.6 | The gender pain gap is a term that really sort of came into popularity about 20 years ago, |
| 1:40.6 | with a growing awareness in medical humanities and sociology about the way that women's pain |
| 1:47.1 | is treated differently in doctor's surgeries in A&E compared to men's. |
| 1:54.2 | So what happens in the gap, what falls into the gap, is the treatment of women's pain |
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