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Andrzej Harris

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Associate Professor of Pharmacology University of Cambridge Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Researching Cryo-EM, Structural Biology and AMR Book on Medical Misogyny for Vintage Book

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

By way of an update/introduction - my book "The Stitch-Up: How Medical Misogyny Harms Us All" co-written by Dr @andrzejharris.bsky.social is finally coming out in May 2025!! Keen to link up with people interested in any aspect of gender violence in healthcare.

Screenshot of penguin webpage for book entitled The Stitch-Up: How Medical Misogyny Harms Us All, released 29/05/25

Text from penguin webpage:

As Emma was being sewn up following the birth of her second child, the midwife paused, looked up and said the worst thing anyone has ever said to her: ‘Your vagina’s fallen out.’

After receiving a vague diagnosis of ‘prolapse’, she spent the next two years being shunted between specialists. The solutions on offer ranged from kegels to hysterectomy and even labia trimming. Some doctors simply shrugged and said there was nothing they could do.

Women around her spoke of similar experiences: mothers told that pain was the price of parenthood; trans women blamed for ‘wanting a vagina in the first place’; Black women disbelieved and dismissed; intersex men and women lied to by their doctors.

The mesh scandal that injured thousands. The ‘love doctor’ who performed nonconsensual vaginal surgeries. Over and over again, Emma heard stories of women in pain, bleeding, dying, failed by the professionals who were supposed to help them.

Medical misogyny kills, and leaves many more in agony, unable to live full lives. The Stitch-Up tells their stories, and calls for better research, healthcare options, language and treatment, arguing that being female should never be a death sentence.

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drug doc @pkpd-babe.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Hi 👋🏽 I’m Monica, and I will be adding people in the fields of pharmacology, physiology, and neuroscience to the science feed bsky.app/profile/did:.... 🧪 If you would like to be added to the feed, please respond to this post with evidence that you are in one (or more) of the fields mentioned above!

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Stefan Marciniak @profmarciniak.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Are you a medic wanting to do a PhD in mesothelioma biology at the University of Cambridge? Deadline 19 November 2024 (Please send to colleagues you think might be interested) crukcambridgecentre.org.uk/sites/defaul...

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