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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Let Them Bleed: How Medical Discrimination Keeps Women with Endometriosis and Other Gynecology-Related Diseases and Disorders from Accessing Care Date Authors Editors Journal Title Journal ISSN Volume Title Publisher Abstract The 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.

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