@article{ref1,
title="The modern-day "Rest Cure": "The yellow Wallpaper" and underrepresentation in clinical research",
journal="Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine: PEHM",
year="2024",
author="Villar, Camille Francesca",
volume="19",
number="1",
pages="e8-e8",
abstract="Gothic literature-a genre brimming with madness, supernaturalism, and psychological terror-offers innumerable case studies potentially representing how psychiatric patients perceive their treatment from healthcare professionals. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's famous 1892 short story &quot;The Yellow Wallpaper&quot; offers a poignant example of this through its fictional narrator, a diarist many interpret to be suffering from postpartum depression. The fiction here does not stray far from reality: Gilman orchestrated her diarist's experience to mirror her own, as both real author and fictional character suffocated from a melancholy only made worse by their physicians' insistence on following the &quot;Rest Cure.&quot; While this instruction to cease all work and activity was a prevalent depression treatment at the time, Gilman, through &quot;The Yellow Wallpaper,&quot; reveals how the intervention ultimately harmed more than helped because it overlooked her-and, by extension, her fictional diarist's- unique needs and identities. Today, while the ineffective Rest Cure no longer exists, applying observations from &quot;The Yellow Wallpaper&quot; to clinical research calls attention to underrepresentation in treatment development, a costly problem that could be mitigated by mindful incorporation of intersectionality theory into study designs.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1747-5341",
doi="10.1186/s13010-024-00158-8",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13010-024-00158-8"
}