Tag: health policy
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For me, activism isn’t solely health related. Yesterday, I attended the Together Alliance ‘March To Stop the Far Right’ in London. It was a glorious day filled with unity and love that gave people from across the country the opportunity to express their opposition to the frightening authoritarian ideology that’s polluting the political system, both…
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I’m writing The Healthcare Rebellion (2028), a non-fiction narrative memoir investigating how institutional power structures have embedded inequity into UK women’s healthcare for centuries, causing disparity that persists today. The book traces the direct lineage from ancient hierarchies to modern medical failures, interweaving my own lobular breast cancer story with the history of activist resistance…
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The Healthcare Rebellion (2028) is an investigative memoir exploring centuries of health inequality in the UK. The book connects historical inequity to modern day treatment gaps, examines how institutional power structures continue to cause disparity, and spotlights women activists who have been instrumental in changing health policy since the 1970s. Author Kate Ford Michaels’ own…
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I’m Kate Ford Michaels, a writer and activist. In January 2023, aged 49, I was diagnosed with invasive lobular breast cancer, a disease, which until then, I’d never heard of. In fact, I had no idea there were different types of breast cancer. Despite being recognised as a distinct subtype of the disease in the…