A review by mousewitched
Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation by Jen Gunter

4.0

Thank you to NetGalley and Highbridge Audio for this ARC! 

Full disclaimer here - I actively work as a reproduction and sexual health advocate/family planner, so a lot of this information was not new to me. I was mostly interested to see if this book would be accessible for my patients and if there was anything new I could learn to teach them. With this intention? I liked it a lot. I thought Dr. Gunter's explanations could lean a little more scientific than the average layperson, but not so bad that you couldn't recommend this book to someone outside of the field. The pelvic exam and pap testing portion especially stood out because I find this is where most of my patients have questions. I also liked that Dr. Gunter narrated it herself as it made something that obviously can be very clinical more personal. I definitely would like to get a copy to keep in clinic as a resource for young people to understand their bodies better.