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020			_a9781474616850
020			_a9781474616867
020			_a9781474616881
060			_aHM 340.
100	1		_aCleghorn, Elinor
245	1	0	_aUnwell women : _ba journey through medicine and myth in a man-made world
264		1	_aLondon : _bWeidenfeld & Nicolson, _c2021.
300			_a478p. : _billustrations (some in colour) ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 419-424) and index.
505			_aIntroduction -- 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.
520			_a'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 exposé of the medical world and woman's place within it.
650		0	_aHistory of medicine
650		0	_aWomen's health
650		0	_aSex role
650		0	_aDiscrimination
650		0	_aFeminism _96163
650		0	_aSocial sciences
650		0	_aEquality _913101
650		0	_aBias
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