Madelyn Quinn
Review Of Contemporary Literature Depicting Women’s Hysteria Used To Portray Societal Pressure Contrasted Against Women’s Neural Health In Modern Medicine as Depicted In Neuroscientific Research and Public Health Survey Analysis
Madelyn Quinn
MCPHS
m0460691@stu.mcphs.edu
Contrasting modern day neuroscience research and employed public health survey methods against contemporary literature explores the relationship of societal effects and expression on women’s mental health. Using contemporary literature viewed from the lens of narrative medicine communicates the ever-present effects of societal pressures on the brain as evidenced by neuro-scientific literature on diverse women populations and strengthened by local surveys conducted to evidence symptomatic expressions will encourage and identify risk reduction practices in medical settings. The discussion centers around how women’s mental health decline is debilitated by societal pressures is ignored and mislabeled as “hysteria” or the unknown ailment that befalls women, which enables the mental illnesses to worsen. These novels follow women throughout their lives being driven into madness or uncharacteristic and damaging behavior these women demonstrate being pushed to their limits by society while their “hysteria” goes unperturbed. IGNORED AND BARIN SCIENCE It is necessary to use literature in this study because it gives nuance and introspection to real life themes of mental health stigma and enhances the power of narrative in medicine.
The neuroscience proves how the brain reacts to stress caused by society in neural anatomy in diverse women populations to depict the representation found in the literature and be consistent in the science. Stigma, stress, and discrimination causes changes in cortisol levels and neural damage depict mental illness ignorance which is perpetrated by patriarchal society. The Public Health Survey targets young adult college-aged women who experience mental health challenges. The survey will analyze the symptoms expressed in the population and identify the self-reported contributing factors. These methods used harmoniously will help identify key themes in society and women’s experiences highlighted in literature that affect adverse neural health outcomes and hypothesize risk reduction implementations.
Medical Misogyny: Neuroscience and Epidemiologic Examination of Kang’s Vegetarian and Murakami’s Sleep
Madelyn Quinn
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
madelynquinnpremed@gmail.com
Contrasting modern day neuroscience research and employed public health survey methods against contemporary literature explores the relationship of societal effects and expression on women’s mental health. Contemporary literature viewed from the lens of narrative medicine communicates the ever-present effects of societal pressures on the brain as evidenced by neuro-scientific literature on diverse women populations and strengthened by local survey conducted to evidence symptomatic expressions to identify risk reduction practices in medical settings. Discussion centers around how women’s mental health decline is debilitated by societal pressures and enabled by misogyny in medicine. These novels follow women through their lives as they are driven into madness and uncharacteristic behaviors, while their medical “hysteria” goes unperturbed. It is necessary to use literature in this study as it gives nuance and introspection to real life themes of mental health stigma and enhances the power of narrative in medicine. Neuroscience proves how the brain reacts to stress caused by society in neural anatomy in diverse women populations to depict the representation found in literature. Stigma, stress, and discrimination causes changes in cortisol levels and neural damage which depicts mental illness ignorance, which is perpetrated by patriarchal society. The Public Health Survey targets young adult college-aged women who experience mental health challenges. The survey will analyze the symptoms expressed in the population and identify the self-reported contributing factors. These methods used harmoniously will help identify key themes in society and women’s experiences highlighted in literature that affect adverse neural health outcomes and hypothesize risk reduction implementations.
BIOGRAPHY
Madelyn Quinn is a Mental Health Specialist and a Health Humanities and Public Health (B.A./B.S.) 2025 MCPHS Candidate located in Boston, Massachusetts. The discipline of Health Humanities is shown through Madelyn’s work as Director of a 10-part Health Humanities Workshop Series as well as previously presented works: “Identifying Risk Factors of Frontal Temporal Dementia Through Retrospective Study and Identifying Societal Risk Factors of Substance Abuse in Boston Adolescents.” Madelyn's work focuses on combining arts and literature with biological and health promotion concentrations to amplify the connection between the arts and sciences.