Unwell women : (Record no. 42743)

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ISBN 9781474616850
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ISBN 9781474616867
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ISBN 9781474616881
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Classification number HM 340.
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Personal author Cleghorn, Elinor
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Unwell women :
Subtitle a journey through medicine and myth in a man-made world
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture London :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2021.
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Physical description 478p. :
Other physical details illustrations (some in colour) ;
Dimensions 23 cm
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Media type term unmediated
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Carrier type term volume
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504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-424) and index.
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Contents Introduction -- Ancient Greece to the Nineteenth Century: 1. Wandering wombs -- 2. Possessed and polluting -- 3. Under her skin -- 4. On her nerves -- 5. Feeling pain -- 6. Contagious pleasures -- 7. Bleeding mad -- 8. Rest and resistance -- The Late Nineteenth Century to the 1940s? 9. Suffrage and suppression -- 10. Birth control -- 11. Feminine radiance -- 12. Lifting the curse -- 13. Dutiful and disciplined -- 14. Control, and punish -- 1945 to the Present: 15. Public health, private pain -- 16. Mothers' little helpers -- 17. Our bodies, our selves -- 18. Autoimmune -- Conclusion: Believe us.
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Abstract '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.'<br/><br/>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 exposé of the medical world and woman's place within it.
650 #0 - SUBJECT HEADINGS
Subject term History of medicine
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Subject term Women's health
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Subject term Sex role
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Subject term Discrimination
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Subject term Feminism
9 (RLIN) 6163
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Subject term Social sciences
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Subject term Equality
9 (RLIN) 13101
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Subject term Bias
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    National Library of Medicine     People & planet South London and Maudsley Trust Library South London and Maudsley Trust Library Shelves 18/10/2021 10 0.00 2 4 HM 340 CLE 023612 10/11/2022 15/03/2022 12.50 18/10/2021 Book
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