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Male ignorance
Wandering uterus and forced sterilization. How was the diseases explained and treated women for centuries? Test "Cold"
For many centuries, knowledge about female health has been based on stereotypes: for example, it was believed that learning harms women, since their nerves are too “tightly stretched”, and the ovaries are inflamed from reading. Until the 1990s, most clinical testing of drugs were carried out on men, and the female body and its specific needs remained unexplored. And even today, the problem of discrimination remains relevant - the study of diseases from which women mainly suffer, receive less funding than studies of diseases common among men. Learn about the influence of gender stereotypes on medicine in the Cold test.
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In the past, many diseases of women were explained by hysteria, and this exclusively female diagnosis existed until the 1980s. At first, doctors recommend marriage and motherhood as a treatment, then forced conclusion in psychiatric hospital, the use of electric shock, and the violent surgical removal of the clitoris, uterus and chest. Check if you know how you treated women in a longtime - and very recently! - The past.
Let's start with the distant past! Even the ancient Greeks tried to reveal the causes of various diseases and death of women. Because of what, in their opinion, women often hurt and died?
Suffocation and rabies of the uterus
Few pregnancies
Hysteria and strokes due to nerves
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In what year did the first complete scientific description of the clitoris appear?
In 1890
In 1931
In 1998
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In the 19th century, Hungarian Dr. Ignets Zemmelweis received the nickname “Savior Mother” for finding the cause of maternity leaves (infectious infection during childbirth), from which up to 30% of women and babies in European hospitals died. He made a discovery thanks to which mortality in his compartment decreased to zero. This discovery was rejected by the scientific community, and mocked the doctor. What was his theory?
Doctors did not apply seams on postpartum wounds
Doctors took birth after opening corpses without disinfection of hands and tools
Doctors used toxic substances for disinfection
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In 1957, the German pharmaceutical company released a medicine for pregnant women from nausea, irritability and insomnia. The drug was advertised as the best remedy for nursing and pregnant women and soon became popular all over the world. However, the women who used it faced serious side effects. With which?
Development of malignant tumors
Infertility
The birth of children with disabilities and without limbs
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In the United States, forced sterilization of women has been legal from 1907 until the end of the twentieth century. By what indications was it held?
Mental disorders, mental retardation, epilepsy
Crimes, sexually transmitted diseases
The presence of more than two children out of marriage, belonging to another race
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Before the third attempt to approve the female Viagra in 2015, the Office for Sanitary Supervision of the quality of food and medicines (FDA) requested a study on its compatibility with alcohol. How many women participated in it?
92%
35%
8%
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Scientists have been studying HIV and AIDS for many years, but for a long time women have examined differently than men and children. What did you try to find out?
How women convey the disease to men
How menstruation affects the development of the disease
How a woman is infected with sexual contact
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In what year did scientists first find out the causes of toxicosis in pregnant women?
In 1990
In 2012
In 2023
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