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Unwell Women - A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World (Paperback)
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Unwell Women - A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World (Paperback)
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Loot Price R415
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'Seamlessly melding scholarship with passion, Unwell Women is the
definition of unputdownable' Telegraph 'A richly detailed,
wide-ranging and enraging history... Unwell Women is not just a
compelling investigation, but an essential one' Observer 'A
passionate and indignant history' The Times 'A searing, brilliant
investigation, an intricate and urgent book on how women's health
has constantly been misunderstood and miscast throughout history'
Kate Williams 'One of the most important books of our generation'
Fern Riddell 'UNWELL WOMEN is a powerful and fascinating book that
takes an unsparing look at how women's bodies have been
misunderstood and misdiagnosed for centuries.' Lindsey Fitzharris
'We are taught that medicine is the art of solving our body's
mysteries. And as a science, we expect medicine to uphold the
principles of evidence and impartiality. We want our doctors to
listen to us and care for us as people, but we also need their
assessments of our pain and fevers, aches and exhaustion to be free
of any prejudice about who we are, our gender, or the colour of our
skin. But medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history.
The history of medicine, of illness, is a history of people, of
their bodies and their lives, not just physicians, surgeons,
clinicians and researchers. And medical progress has always
reflected the realities of a changing world, and the meanings of
being human.' In Unwell Women Elinor Cleghorn unpacks the roots of
the perpetual misunderstanding, mystification and misdiagnosis of
women's bodies, and traces the journey from the 'wandering womb' of
ancient Greece, the rise of witch trials in Medieval Europe,
through the dawn of Hysteria, to modern day understandings of
autoimmune diseases, the menopause and conditions like
endometriosis. Packed with character studies of women who have
suffered, challenged and rewritten medical orthodoxy - and drawing
on her own experience of un-diagnosed Lupus disease - this is a
ground-breaking and timely expose of the medical world and woman's
place within it.
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