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tastybugs 's review for:
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
by Elinor Cleghorn
This book was a great recount of well off white women with chronic conditions being ignored by doctors. Where it fell short was including any sort of intersectionality save for a few very brief mentions of a couple WOC.
One thing that did stick out to me, was most of these cases we don’t even know the woman’s name. She is referred to by an initial or just a number. Like they were just completely stripped of personhood and left to be forgotten. And like the author mentioned, there’s really no accounts from the actual women about how they truly felt- all accounts are through a male physicians lens and that leaves so much unknown because as this book proved, these male doctors are unreliable narrators of women’s stories.
One thing that did stick out to me, was most of these cases we don’t even know the woman’s name. She is referred to by an initial or just a number. Like they were just completely stripped of personhood and left to be forgotten. And like the author mentioned, there’s really no accounts from the actual women about how they truly felt- all accounts are through a male physicians lens and that leaves so much unknown because as this book proved, these male doctors are unreliable narrators of women’s stories.