Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn

Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

Elinor Cleghorn

396 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction feminism health history challenging informative medium-paced
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A trailblazing conversation-starting history of women's health—from Ancient Greece to hormones and autoimmune diseases—brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative. In thirteenth-century Europe, Roman Catholicism decreed that menstruation...

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