{"paper_id":"e2760a68-708d-4f78-a88f-6f256449e8ab","body_text":"Let Them Bleed: How Medical Discrimination Keeps Women with Endometriosis and Other Gynecology-Related Diseases and Disorders from Accessing Care\nDate\nAuthors\nEditors\nJournal Title\nJournal ISSN\nVolume Title\nPublisher\nAbstract\nThe aim of this thesis is to examine how people with endometriosis routinely experience layers of discrimination when attempting to access medical care. My central argument is that the millennia-long history of white, male supremacy in medicine, and in broader society, have conspired to rob endometriosis patients of autonomy and agency within a system defined by asymmetrical power dynamics. By pulling the threads of history, we can see how seemingly antiquated ideas about women—and particularly women marginalized by additional factors beyond sex and gender—remain part of the modern experience of endometriosis care. Using memoir, interviews, journals, books and media reports, this extensively sourced thesis weaves together an alarming portrait of the systemic forces that fail people with endometriosis time and time again.","source_license":"CC0","license_restricted":false}