Gynecological health
“In the mid-1800s, gynecologists experimented with the surgical removal of the clitoris (known as a clitoridectomy) or the ovaries (an oophorectomy) to treat hysteria. Isaac Baker Brown was a well-known gynecologist in England and the president of the Medical Society of London. He recommended clitoridectomy as a treatment for insanity, epilepsy,
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“Patients with endometriosis are sometimes told to get pregnant to treat the condition, which is hardly a sustainable long-term plan, especially for patients who don’t want to be pregnant.”
Excerpt From
It's Not Hysteria
Dr. Karen Tang
“The medical community and society in general too often presume that anyone with a working uterus must want to use it for pregnancy, even when people say that they don’t want to conceive or are done having children.”
Excerpt From
It's Not Hysteria
Dr. Karen Tang