Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn

Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World

Elinor Cleghorn

496 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction feminism health history challenging informative medium-paced
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Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt ashamed of them, were humiliated by them. But as doctors, researchers, campaigners and most of all...

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