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nerdybirdy101's review
3.0
The first half of the book was compelling and I tabbed a lot quotes. The second half repeated ideas from the first half and added modern examples, which was meh. I do like the main idea how gender impacts medical treatment and understanding of pain.
angelicarose's review against another edition
Really good but I just kept not reading it, wanna start over eventually one day
eren_reads's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
4.5
The quote from Emily Wilson about this book sums up how I feel about it:
This book is a brilliant, blood-drenched page-turner. Every girl, woman and man - and most particularly every doctor - should read it
This book is a thorough investigation of how women's health is under-researched, misunderstood and overall not cared about as much as men's health is on a systematic level. It looks at the way that living in a patriarchal society has led to this.
My one criticism of this book is that, despite brief mentions, it mainly focuses on white cisgender women. There are some mentions of non-white cisgender women and how they are disproportionately impacted by health disparities but there is hardly any mention on AFAB transgender people or people who are intersex. I don't hold this against the book but it would be nice if more was included on this matter to make it a more intersectional read.
readerskeeter17's review
informative
3.75
Informative and interesting but got a little repetitive and jargony. Non fiction is just tougher for me to rate.