Status Update

Elaine S is 42% done

“As pain became another quantifiable measure of disease, a patient’s description of their suffering was no longer considered “truth” until it had been validated by a physician, who had the authority to manipulate it in the production of scientific knowledge. This dynamic was particularly problematic because of physicians’ demonstrable bias toward non-normative (white male) bodies.”

From What's Wrong?

— Dec 21, 2024 07:30PM