Maya Dusenbery is a journalist, editor, and author of Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne 2018). A New York Times Editors’ Choice pick, Doing Harm was the winner of the 2019 Minnesota Book Award for general nonfiction and was named one of the best books of 2018 by NPR and Library Journal. Formerly the editorial director of the feminist blog Feministing.com, Maya has been a columnist for Pacific Standard magazine and a fellow at Mother Jones. She has written for publications including the New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, Slate, Cosmopolitan.com, TheAtlantic.com, and contributed to the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. She has been interviewed about gender bias in medicine on NPR’s Fresh Air, Good Morning America, and countless radio shows and podcasts. She regularly gives talks on the subject to students, health care providers, patient advocates, and biomedical researchers.
You can read more about her work at www.mayadusenbery.com.
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COVID: How the pandemic highlighted period taboos
AlJazeera [November 2, 2021] -
How to Improve Women's Healthcare? Fix the 'Knowledge' and 'Trust' Gaps
MedPage Today [October 27, 2021] -
The bias that blinds: why some people get dangerously different medical care
The Guardian [September 21, 2021] -
COVID-19 puts spotlight on disparities in research on women's health
Good Morning America [May 19, 2021] -
Women face struggles as patients with Covid-19 — and beyond
CNN Health [October 23, 2020] -
Maya Dusenbery on How Sexism in Medicine Keeps Women Sick
KQED [July 24, 2018] -
How Health Care Fails Women
Prevention [July 2, 2018] -
Memoirs of Disease and Disbelief
The New Yorker [June 4, 2018] -
Harmful for your health: When gender bias affects medical diagnosis
'The 51 Percent' on France 24 TV [April 20, 2018] -
Woman says her doctor told her she was just fat, when in fact she had cancer
Good Morning America [April 19, 2018] -
40-Year-Old Male, 154 lbs.: The Legacy of Research Dedicated to Men
'The Takeaway' on WNYC [March 29, 2018] -
How 'Bad Medicine' Dismisses And Misdiagnoses Women's Symptoms
'Fresh Air' on NPR [March 27, 2018] -
Three Views of the Crisis in Women's Health
The New York Times Book Review [March 13, 2018] -
When Medicine Fails Women
'The Brian Lehrer Show' on WNYC [March 12, 2018] -
Medicine Has A Sexism Problem, And It’s Making Sick Women Sicker
HuffPost [March 6, 2018] -
Why sex that’s consensual can still be bad.
New York Magazine [October 20, 2015] -
Diversity has to be intentional and other lessons from Feministing
Poynter [August 12, 2015] -
The Ugly Truth About Austerity
Talk Poverty [May 13, 2015] -
When Gender Stereotypes Become A Serious Hazard To Women’s Health
Think Progress [May 11, 2015]
Robin on Dr. Ford v. Kavanaugh, lesbiphobia in retirement homes, Somalia's FGM deaths, and how the Koch Brothers miscalculated. Guests: Erica Gonzalez on Puerto Rico's hurricane anniversary; Maya Dusenbery on Doing Harm, her exposé of medicine today.