viva davis halifax, nancyReaume, GeoffreySnider, Madison Taylor2025-02-112025-02-112023-09-21https://hdl.handle.net/10315/42632Major Research Paper (Master's), Critical Disability Studies, School of Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Health, York UniversityIn this MRP, I chose several large-scale Western historical events or periods of significant development to demonstrate the effects that still exist within healthcare for women and people assigned female at birth today. This includes the “Golden Age” of Greece, which saw large advancements in medicine, architecture, art, and literature; the Medieval European witch trials, which saw their peak from 1550-1782; and the Victorian era, in which thousands of women were declared insane and imprisoned in institutions and asylums. This will provide groundwork to understand Western culture’s treatment of women and people assigned female at birth within their societies and by extension, within healthcare. Historical context will also serve as foundational to ask questions about how this history contributes to the ongoing trauma and harm that disabled and chronically ill women and people assigned female at birth still experience when interacting with such systems today. In this MRP, I use an intersectional framework and autoethnographic methodology to examine key examples in the past timeline of Western healthcare and ask what direct consequences can be observed in the modern system today for chronically ill, mad, disabled women and people assigned female at birth.enThe copyright for the paper content remains with the author.Research Paper