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Linda Griffith explains how MIT scientist are working with surgeons around the world to define molecular subtypes of endometriosis related to immune and invasion networks. Using a combination of experimental and machine learning approaches, biological engineering models are constructed using tissue biopsies to test hypotheses about new non-hormonal therapies.

Ads for Premarin appearing in medical journals initially targeted doctors wanting to grow their practices. Later ads in women’s magazines played on women’s insecurities and normalized taking estrogen for life.

Although the pharmaceutical corporation that sells Premarin sponsored most ads, television ads for HRT promoted the idea of needing to “replace” estrogen and not necessarily a particular product . The list of potential health problems (should a woman fail to take HRT) in the second ad is truly frightening.

Sociologist Ariel Sallah discusses Ecofeminism as Politics (the title of one of her books), the treatment of women as natural resources, and women’s everyday struggles with the conditions of everyday life, particularly in the context of climate change and degradation of the environment. Her fascinating talk is rich in history and broad in scope.

 
This 2022 article discusses the environmental impact of disposable menstrual products.