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Jun 2021
28m 59s

Is medicine sexist?

THE TIMES
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Is medicine sexist, and is female health suffering as a result?


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Guests:

-Professor Jill B. Delston from the University of Missouri, author of 'Medical Sexism: Contraception Access, Reproductive Medicine, and Health Care'.

-Hope Docherty, who suffers with endometriosis. 


Host: Manveen Rana.


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