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Unwell Women

Hardcover • 2021 • English

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

By Elinor Cleghorn

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About the book

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 he...Show more

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ISBN

9781474616850

Published year

2021

Language

English

Original title

Unwell Women

Format

Hardcover

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