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The 1995 film Safe explores the harmful effects of sexism in healthcare on the psychological and physical health of women and girls. It explores the connections between mental illness, the misdiagnosis of mental illness when physical conditions proved difficult to diagnose, feminism, and healthcare disparities that result from deep-rooted sexism in the medical industry.
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== References ==
== Further reading == Augsburg, Tanya (1996). Private Theatres Onstage (Hysteria and the Female Medical Subject). UMI. Bronfen, Elisabeth (2014). The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-6473-7. Greenhalgh, Ally (6 December 2022). "Medicine and Misogyny: The Misdiagnosis of Women". Confluence. Hedva, Johanna (2020). "Sick Woman Theory" (PDF). Herman, Judith Lewis (1992). Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence—from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-08730-3. Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman (2020). Becoming Human. doi:10.18574/nyu/9781479890040.001.0001. ISBN 978-1-4798-3455-6. S2CID 261359346. Kapsalis, Terri (2008). The Hysterical Alphabet. WhiteWalls. ISBN 978-0-945323-16-7. Katz, James D.; Seaman, Rachel; Diamond, Shari (May 2008). "Exposing Gender Bias in Medical Taxonomy: Toward Embracing a Gender Difference Without Disenfranchising Women". Women's Health Issues. 18 (3): 151–154. doi:10.1016/j.whi.2008.03.002. PMID 18457752. Libbrecht, Katrien (1995). Hysterical Psychosis: A Historical Survey. London: Transaction Publishers. ISBN 1-56000-181-X. Micale, Mark S. (1995). Approaching Hysteria: Disease and its Interpretations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-03717-5. Micale, Mark S. (2009). Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-04098-4. Micklem, Niel (1996). The Nature of Hysteria. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-12186-8. Mickles, Kiana (October 2017). "Beyond J. Marion Sims: Black Women Have Been Fighting Discrimination in the Medical Industrial Complex for Centuries". CRWNMAG. Showalter, Elaine (1987). The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830–1980. Virago. ISBN 978-0-86068-869-3. Spurgas, Alyson K. (2020). Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-first Century. Ohio State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8142-1451-0. Suslovic, Brianna (2 January 2023). "Hysterical Solidarity: An Embodied Reflection on Contemporary Sexual and Reproductive Rights Concerns in the United States". Studies in Gender and Sexuality. 24 (1): 21–27. doi:10.1080/15240657.2022.2161284. S2CID 257535669. Villines, Zawn (25 October 2021). "Gender Bias in Healthcare: Examples and Consequences". Medical News Today.
== External links == Erika Kinetz, "Is Hysteria Real? Brain Images Say Yes" (The New York Times) Female Hysteria During Victorian Era: Its Symptoms, Diagnosis & Treatment/Cures