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[โ€“] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Medicine has always assumed a male patient, which is why it's redundant to call something a men's hospital and why it's necessary to specify a women's health center. Women are the "other" under patriarchy, and men the default.

Women weren't even included in clinical trials in the US until 1993.

read more here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_health

Simone de Beauvoir's Second Sex covers a lot of ground about women being the "other" in case you wanted more on that.

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