Let Them Bleed: How Medical Discrimination Keeps Women with Endometriosis and Other Gynecology-Related Diseases and Disorders from Accessing Care

Tracey Lindeman-Jarvis
In: Carleton University · 2022 · doi:10.22215/etd/2022-16103 · W4401632824
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This paper examines how medical discrimination obstructs access to care for women with endometriosis and other gynecology-related diseases and disorders.

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This extensively sourced thesis examines how people with endometriosis experience routine, layered discrimination when trying to access medical care, arguing that longstanding white male supremacy in medicine and society has produced asymmetrical power dynamics that diminish patients’ autonomy and agency. Using a narrative evidence base drawn from memoir, interviews, journals, books, and media reports, it traces historical ideas about women—especially women marginalized by factors beyond sex and gender—that continue to shape contemporary endometriosis care experiences. The central caveat is that the work is framed as a qualitative, historically contextualized synthesis rather than a study generating quantitative clinical outcomes. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it focuses specifically on how medical discrimination affects access to care for people with endometriosis and related gynecology-related diseases.

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