Bio

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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