Written by Emily Young

Sexism in contemporary healthcare is often framed as a modern problem, stemming from a lack of training or insufficient research attention to women’s health. While these explanations are not wrong, they are incomplete. From a critical health psychology perspective, the marginalisation of women’s bodies is not an accident of modern medicine, but a feature of its foundations. The patriarchal logic that shapes how women’s bodies are understood, viewed, and governed today are embedded in the historical origins of Western medicine.

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