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The article discusses issues concerning public health and clinical issues associated with expedited partner therapy in the U.S.

The article offers the author's insight on the historical aspects of gendered biases in the understanding of hysteria, with regards to the analysis by Kanaan on the diagnostic processes of hysteria. He discusses how the diagnoses of hysteria and mental health conditions have been gendered and its consequences for women who suffered from unexplained chronic pain. He states that women were affected by the diagnostic criteria of hysteria, given that they are mostly diagnosed with conversion disorders, the modern equivalent of hysteria, than men. He notes that Kanaan provides a nuanced understanding on the role of lying in the diagnosis of hysteria that complicates the doctor-patient encounter and how it affects the moral of the patient leading to the erosion of epistemic agency.