![]() ![]() Author Maya Dusenbery, executive editor of Feministing, brings forth a slew of modern-day proof that suspicion of women by scientists and medical practitioners is still alive. While these early examples of mistrust towards women’s medical concerns may seem archaic, that’s all they are: early examples. He said if a restless uterus roves around the body, “prompt marriage is a recommended cure.” Otherwise, a womb that “remains barren too long after puberty” is sure to cause trouble. Even Plato noted the burdensome issues of a wandering womb. In that time, hysteria, from the Greek word for uterus, was to blame for common inconveniences such a menstrual cramps and dizziness, as well as life-altering misfortunes like the sense of suffocation and paralysis. “The womb is the origin of all diseases,” reads a Hippocratic medical text from 5th century BC. ![]()
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