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Pain becomes her

21 mins | Dec 28, 2020
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Women's pain, it seems, is hysterical until proven otherwise. Their pain is often medically overlooked and undertreated. But for Elizabeth Barnes, professor of philosophy at the University of Virginia, the answer is not as simple as "believing all women." In Aeon magazine, she explores why.

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