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

informative medium-paced

2.75

The arguments at the centre of this book are so, so important, which only makes it more frustrating that the quality of the historical research in here was... not great. The factual and historiographical problems other reviewers pointed out are largely inconsequential and have no bearing on the main point of the work, but their presence could undermine the rest of the book, which is a shame. I really valued the commitment made to calling out medical racism as well as misogyny, and was pleased that there were no TERFy overtones in the writing. I wouldn't recommend this as a history of women's health, but the ideas at the root of the book are sound.
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