Jane Ussher: Challenging Medicalization of Postpartum Depression
Jane Ussher, Professor of Women’s Health Psychology at Western Sydney University, shared a post on LinkedIn about a paper by Lisa Cosgrove et al. published in Women’s Reproductive Health:
“Using zuranolone as a case study, this paper shows how industry and academia reinforce the medicalisation of women’s distress, overstating benefits while downplaying harms, and deflecting attention from the social and economic drivers of postpartum suffering.”
Title: Take Back the Narrative: What Women and Healthcare Providers Need to Know About the “First-Ever” Pill for Postpartum Depression
Authors: Lisa Cosgrove, Fiona Wu, Maeve Silman, Edie Gobel, Emilija Jankov, Lena Matković, Marija Milovanović, Dinah Akua Odea Ansah
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