Episode 107: Welcome back to Real Health Radio. We have another guest interview and this week I’m sitting down with Dr. Kathryn Clancy.
She is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, but a lot of the research that she does now looks at women’s experiences working in science and academia more broadly.
00:04:30
Kate’s training and background
00:09:40
The problem Kate has with the field of anthropology
00:12:00
Differences in reproductive health between the US and Poland
00:19:00
How periods and birth control are talked about in Poland
00:21:30
Menopause
00:23:00
PMS, PMDD, and how they vary through cultures
00:28:30
Culture-bound Syndrome
00:32:30
Adaptation vs Genetic Drift
00:35:00
In menstruation obsolete?
00:39:15
Kate’s feminist biology lab
00:42:00
Sexual harassment in academia
00:47:00
Is it getting better?
00:49:00
Does how women are treated affect their reproductive physiology?
00:51:00
Kate’s feelings on the current political climate
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Dear Chris,
I’m big fan of your podcast and I appreciate a lot your knowledge. I’m also Polish, that’s why I couldn’t leave this episod without a comment. Please find below the message that I sent to dr Clancy in order to understand what am I talking about:
“Dear dr Clancy. My name is Kasia and I’m Polish. I’m writing to you because I was listening to your interview with Chris Sandel from Real Health Radio and I couldn’t leave without a comment what you said about my country. I don’t know where you did your study in Poland (although from the photo it looks like you were in the south) but I grew up in the rural Poland, my parents are farmers and since I can remember we had books in our home. Both my parents and grandparents were actually readind them. Also, saying that we don’t have grocery stores in the rural Poland is totaly false. Maybe it was true before 1989 (the end of the communism in Poland) but not for the past 28 years. Saying that rural Poland is remote sounds like we are leaving outside of the civilization, which is not true. We have landlines, cellphones, computers and the internet access. Please, refrain from picturing Poland and other contries from Estern Europe as wild and uncivilised because it far from the true. Best regards, Kasia Wiejacha”
I belive that dr Clancy is spreading some untrue information about my country and you are participating in it by describing US and UK as Westernized countries comparing to Poland. I know it’s a shortcut but I also know that for some people it’s a way to say that my country is not civilised and wild. I travel a lot and I don’t have a doubts that Poland is more modern and civilised that some of the so called “Westernized” countries.
Best regards,
Kasia Wiejacha