Doing Harm

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Explores the deep, systemic problems that underlie women's experiences of feeling dismissed by the medical system. Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with experts within and outside the medical establishment, and personal stories from regular women to provide the a look at how sexism in medicine harms women today. She shows how women suffer because the medical community knows relatively less about their diseases and bodies and too often doesn't trust their reports of their symptoms. In addition to offering an explanation of the root causes of this bias and laying out its effects, Dusenbery suggests concrete steps we can take to cure it. --From publisher description