1. Young Woman's 'Hysteria' Turned Out to Be Deadly Heart Condition
21 aug 2015 · Feeling hysterical, a 29-year-old woman rushed to the ER. But the cause of her agitated state wasn't in her head.
Feeling hysterical, a 29-year-old woman rushed to the ER. But the cause of her agitated state wasn't in her head.
2. 'Calm down dear, it's only an aneurysm' – why doctors need to ...
16 okt 2019 · Female heart-attack victims are half as likely as men to receive treatment. Is 'hysteria' still being used to deny women adequate medical care?
Female heart-attack victims are half as likely as men to receive treatment. Is ‘hysteria’ still being used to deny women adequate medical care?
3. Doctors dismissed these women as hysterical. Now they're fighting back
2 jul 2024 · In Australia, research from the University of Sydney in 2018 found that females admitted to hospital for serious heart attack were half as ...
Two thirds of Australian women say they have encountered gender bias or discrimination in healthcare.
4. Medically unexplained illness and the diagnosis of hysterical conversion ...
22 okt 2012 · When considering HCR, physicians' differential diagnoses could include asthma, congenital heart disease, depression or anxiety disorders, ...
Frequent reporting of cases of hysterical conversion reaction (HCR) among hospitalized female medical patients in Bangladesh’s public hospital system led us to explore the prevalence of “HCR” diagnoses within hospitals and the manner in which ...
5. Women rarely die from heart problems, right? Ask Paula. - Harvard Gazette
11 apr 2024 · Women rarely die from heart problems, right? Ask Paula. New book traces how medical establishment's sexism, focus on men over centuries ...
Book excerpt from “All in Her Head” by Elizabeth Comen.
6. It's hysteria, not a heart attack, GP app Babylon tells women - The Times
13 okt 2019 · A virtual GP app praised by the health secretary has been accused of putting patients at risk after it emerged that entering identical heart ...
A virtual GP app praised by the health secretary has been accused of putting patients at risk after it emerged that entering identical heart attack symptoms for men and women resulted in different suggested diagnoses.The Babylon app, which bears the NHS logo, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to ide
7. The History of Hysteria | Office for Science and Society
31 jul 2017 · ... heart and surrounding areas are enveloped in ... Hysteria was basically the medical ... patients, were not problems when they presented in male ...
Today, when we say someone is hysterical, we mean that they are frenzied, frantic, or out of control. Until 1980, however, hysteria was a formally studied psychological disorder that could be found in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Before its classification as a mental disorder, hysteria was considered a physical ailment, first described medically in 1880 by Jean-Martin Charcot. Even before this, hysteria was thoroughly described in ancient Egyptian and Greek societies. So what was hysteria? How did it just go away? Why was it a major point of contention for second wave feminists, and how was it treated? Throughout history hysteria has been a sex-selective disorder, affecting only those of us with a uterus. These uteri were often thought to be the basis of a variety of health problems. The ancient Egyptians and Greeks, for example, believed wombs capable of affecting the rest of the body’s health. In ancient Greece specifically, it was believed that a uterus could migrate around the female body, placing pressure on other organs and causing any number of ill effects. This “roaming uteri” theory, supported by works from the philosopher Plato and the physician Aeataeus, was called ‘hysterical suffocation’, and the offending uterus was usually coaxed back into place by placing good smells near the vagina, bad smells near the mouth, and sneezing. The philosopher and physician Galen however disagreed with the roving ute...
8. GP at Hand app tells women its hysteria not a heart attack
13 okt 2019 · The man is advised to go to A&E, while the woman is told to contact her GP within six hours if the symptoms persist. A British Heart Foundation ...
Babylon Health’s GP at Hand app has been accused of putting patients at risk, according to an article in the Sunday Times, after it emerged that if a woman entered ... Read more
9. The Lingering Effects of Female Hysteria in Medicine
10 aug 2021 · On the 24th of this July, Brayden McLean, outfitted in a hospital visitor sticker on... ... hysteria. Female hysteria's ... heart attack because ...
Human history can be defined by many threads, one being the millennia spent oppressing women's bodies, minds and spirits. This has lasted and thrived into the modern era, resulting in unfounded beliefs about female frailty shaping every facet of our society. The stereotype that women are weak, fragile and to be protected from strenuous mental
10. Women And Hysteria In The History Of Mental Health - PMC
This small rural hospital, which was open from 1860 to 1890 in the small village of Siddi (in the heart of the Marmilla area, Sardinia) admitted 463 patients, ...
Hysteria is undoubtedly the first mental disorder attributable to women, accurately described in the second millennium BC, and until Freud considered an exclusively female disease. Over 4000 years of history, this disease was considered from two ...
11. Hysterical female? Just anxious? Or heart attack? - Heart Sisters
27 mrt 2016 · You could even call me anxious – when I am anxious – just don't let that be the benchmark for my healthcare, or a Bingo call number, or a ...
In this terrific guest post, author Patty Digh describes her heart attack experience: “The sad fact is that I waited. I waited because I felt shamed into feeling like an hysterical female, sh…
12. From hysteria to empowerment - Yale School of Medicine
The physicians posited that their patients developed hysteria ... Medical College after being rejected by 29 other medical schools. ... heart disease so that fewer ...
How women's health has evolved over time.
13. [PDF] Hysterical Health: Unpicking the cultural beliefs that shape women's ...
Editor's Choice - Impact of initial hospital diagnosis on mortality for acute myocardial infarction: A national cohort study. European. Heart Journal: Acute ...
