Medicine & Misogyny

Caren Beilin
The coronavirus vaccines have more side effects for women than they do for men, and no one who was pregnant or lactating was included in the initial vaccine trials. These are just two recent grievances illustrating how casual misogyny intersects with medicine, which is, of course, nothing new. The Berlin-based artist collective Feminist Health Care Research Group—led by Inga Zimprich and Julia Bonn—has been creating resources to educate audiences about medicine since 201