Bedside Reading

Unwell Women

April 23, 2024 Bedside Reading Podcast Season 6 Episode 16
Bedside Reading
Unwell Women
Show Notes


It's a real honour today to welcome Professor Chloe Orkin to Bedside Reading . Chloe  is a researcher, an HIV specialist, a doctor, and an unwell woman and we talk about what that means in the context of Eleanor Cleghorn's brilliant book Unwell Women: a journey through medicine and myth in a man-made world. We talk about feminism, we talk about medical heroes,  we talk about epistemic, testimonial and hermaneutic injustice . I've had a brilliant time talking to Chloe and she has really really made me think even more than I have done after reading Unwell Women. I really hope you'll enjoy our conversation today.

Follow Chloe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/profchloeorkin

Chloe is the immediate past president of https://www.medicalwomensfederation.org.uk/

We mention an article Chloe wrote which had a big impact on my thinking, read it here: https://bmjleader.bmj.com/content/7/2/88