📚 RECENT READS AND REFLECTING ON ACCESSIBLE HEALTHCARE FOR ALL
As a woman working in #MedTech, I believe it is imperative for me to ensure and advocate that healthcare and medical technology is accessible and inclusive to #women, in the daily work that I do.
I recently read this book titled "Unwell Women" by Elinor Cleghorn during the German Unification day long weekend as I was sitting in the train, and it was an enlightening read that sheds light on how historically women have been excluded from accessible healthcare and treatment development and how harmful sexist and racist myths about women's health has been perpetuated and normalized by society, corporations and healthcare practitioners.
It is a reminder that many women have laid their lives and their unrecognized work in ensuring women are included in the advancement of healthcare and medical technology and gaining back more autonomy over their own bodies. Even German history was mentioned a few times in the book from witch hunting manuals to the invention of painless birth.
It also goes to show that healthcare accessibility isnt just limited to the realm of technological advancements, but also the governance of it, policies, trade and how many different aspects of sociopolitics and economics also intertwine with it, which gives you a highly interdisciplinary and systemic view of how so many events creates ripples through time and space and affected so many lives. I highly recommend this read to everyone.
I would say reading it was both triggering, but also validating, and serves as a reminder of how far we have come to make healthcare and medical technology accessible to all women, and how much further we have to go.
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1moSuch a great panel! Thanks for sharing Zarah Ali, DMD with us at DSO Technology Summit