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Your Fertile Years - What You Need to Know to Make Informed Choices by Professor Joyce Harper
Your Fertile Years - What You Need to Know to Make Informed Choices by Professor Joyce Harper

Your Fertile Years

When Joyce was in her twenties she started working in the field of fertility and she often had conversations with friends about their bodies and their fertility.  At this time she read ‘Ourbody, ourselves’ and felt it was a book that every woman should read…

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Your Joyful Years

In Your Joyful Years, Professor Joyce Harper provides an empowering, evidence-based guide to thriving beyond 50. Moving past the menopause, this book reframes later life as a vibrant new beginning—a time to rediscover purpose and prioritise self-care. Combining 40 years of scientific expertise with the candid wisdom of 50 inspiring women, Professor Harper offers a reassuring roadmap to health, happiness, and living authentically. This is the essential second book in her life-stage trilogy, proving that your best years are still to come.

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Joyce Harper Podcast with Marieke Bigg: This won't hurt: how medicine fails women.
Episode 9 – 10 May 2023

Dr Marieke Bigg:  This won’t hurt: how medicine fails women. 10th May

In this podcast Professor Joyce Harper will be interviewing guests to discuss all things health related and debunking some of the many myths around our health.

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Marieke Bigg writes about bodies and culture. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge, where she studied the technological transformation of human reproduction. She now writes both non-fiction and fiction about the cultural dimensions of biology and bodies. In addition to her books, Marieke writes freelance, hosts podcasts and panels, and collaborates with scientists and biologists to discuss and produce art that conjures new social worlds.

Here latest non-fiction book called This Won’t Hurt (Hodder, Feb 2023). This book is about all the ways medicine is not gender-neutral, from research to treatment to diagnosis. Throughout history, flawed mindsets have paved the way for sub-par treatment, and the prevailing attitudes that still exist today have had terrible repercussions for women and their bodies.

Her current fiction is called Waiting for Ted (Dead Ink Books, October 2022) “After all these years, I was surprised to find that we were still in the process of trying to assemble two fully self-sustaining parts into one.”

In this episode, Marieke will explain how research into women’s bodies has failed women so far.  The conversation opens with a discussion of female ejaculation and how Masters and Johnson ignored this, even though 40% of women experience it. We discuss how Marieke feels about medicalising women’s health, such as the narrative that all menopausal women need HRT. And we discuss how, in women, so many diseases are misunderstood as we are not the same as men, such as heart disease, cancer and pain. And we talk about the future of sexy science, such as Femtech and artificial wombs.

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