Category Archives: Women’s Health

Interesting snippets on getting adequate medical care

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Elen Samuel

Last year I wrote a blog “Women’s bodies shamed in medicine”, (1) on how women are treated both as doctors and as patients, and how their position as doctors has improved out of all recognition in the last fifty years. There … Continue reading →

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Women’s bodies shamed in medicine.

Posted on July 7, 2024 by Elen Samuel

It is said that historically women have had a raw deal in Western systems of medicine. Women’s bodies have been routinely sexualized or their characteristics ignored or shamed. In a recent book1 a leading cancer doctor in the US, Dr … Continue reading →

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Apps for Women’s Health

Posted on May 11, 2022 by Elen Samuel

The news that safe abortion is likely to be illegal in the USA, in vast swathes of the Midwest and south, is chilling.  The right to control what happens in one’s own body is a basic human right.    In … Continue reading →

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