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In conversations about the deficiencies of the medical-industrial complex, we often forget to center those who bear the brunt of medical oppression: the most marginalized. Women, people of color, disabled people, and more - and worse so, folks at intersections of those identities - are ignored. But these experiences, when uncovered, bring to light the most egregious treatment by the medical community. With Diagnosis Female, Dwass bravely offers readers a look into medical misogyny, validating women's common experiences in doctors' offices, with both wit and candor. And in doing so, she reveals that our culture is the most sick of all -- Melissa Fabello, Former Managing Editor, Everyday Feminism, PhD Emily Dwass offers an accessible and forceful addition to the growing chorus exposing the deep-seated gender bias within medicine. Diagnosis Female will speak to any woman whose voice has gone unheard at the doctor's office. -- Maya Dusenbery, author of Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick A smart and supremely telling addition to the vital body of work by women transforming pain into power. -- Abby Norman, Author of Ask Me About My Uterus In Diagnosis Female: How Medical Bias Endangers Women's Health, Emily Dwass masterfully takes on the medical establishment for overlooking and sometimes perilously ignoring the unique medical symptoms and needs of women. She tackles this complex topic with deep knowledge of the history of medical research, current clinical practice and a medical education system that has too often turned its head away from sexual harassment within its ranks and intentionally disadvantaged female professionals. She does this by interweaving statistical data from academic studies of gender disparities in health care treatment and outcomes, anecdotes from women who have been disbelieved and embarrassed by uncaring doctors, and by sharing bits and pieces of her own medical journey which astonishingly includes a brain tumor that was misdiagnosed for four years. While the book is thoroughly researched, it is written with sympathetic insight and even a touch of humor. -- Diane E. Hoffmann, Jacob A. France Professor of Health Law, University of Maryland School of Law, co-author of The Girl who Cried Pain: A Bias Against Women in the Treatment of Pain, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (2001).

In conversations about the deficiencies of the medical-industrial complex, we often forget to center those who bear the brunt of medical oppression: the most marginalized. Women, people of color, disabled people, and more - and worse so, folks at intersections of those identities - are ignored. But these experiences, when uncovered, bring to light the most egregious treatment by the medical community. With Diagnosis Female, Dwass bravely offers readers a look into medical misogyny, validating women's common experiences in doctors' offices, with both wit and candor. And in doing so, she reveals that our culture is the most sick of all -- Melissa Fabello, Former Managing Editor, Everyday Feminism, PhD

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Emily Dwass has written about health, food and cultural issues for numerous publications, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, the Chicago Tribune and USA Today. She also has written television and movie scripts for the entertainment industry.

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