pickThis the book that every women should read! Sometimes it was hard to read because it was devasteting what psychians did with women throught history.
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Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine And Myth in a Man-Made World | 
pickThis the book that every women should read! Sometimes it was hard to read because it was devasteting what psychians did with women throught history.
pick“…it is impossible to separate the issue of my gender from the sense that my disease is not perceived as legitimate.”
After years of suffering and not being taken seriously, Cleghorn was finally diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. Here, she explores the history of discrimination against women by the medical field and the pervasive idea that our pain is emotional rather than physical.
While still a problem, Cleghorn ends on a hopeful note.
pickAbout how medicine considered (and sometimes still considers) women as the “other”.
One of those books that will make you angry. And grateful you‘re not living two hundred years ago.
Or twenty...
It would‘ve been more interesting if I hadn‘t known most of this information already. Which, in hindsight, is a good thing—means we‘re finally getting somewhere.
3.5/5
Currently reading this book and it‘s very hard not to get angry, be horrified or disgusted by the treatment of women throughout the history of medicine. It is such a compelling book and so engaging.
pickpickCleghorn writes about the history of medicine and its treatment of women‘s health issues from BC times to the present. A lot of focus on early gynecology since women were seen as walking incubators and nothing more for most of humanity‘s existence. Later chapters focus on endocrinology, hormonal birth control, and autoimmune disorders. Cleghorn writes about her own experiences with her lupus diagnosis.
pickThis is a history of healthcare and misogyny from BCE to now in 350 pgs. Since women were seen as walking wombs for a few thousand years 🙄, there‘s a lot of gynecology from the ancient “wandering womb” theory to modern endocrinology. In the most recent chapters, there‘s the developing study of autoimmune disorders and their effect on women. The author has SLE and writes about how her journey informed this book in the final chapter. Fascinating!!
pick4/5
This books works its way through history to lay out the misinformation and bias against women in Western medicine has and continues to affect the way women are treated and diagnosed with disease. At lot of this history is brutal. Terrible things have been done particularly to BIPOC, disabled, and poor women throughout history, and this book does not shy away from that truth.
This book isn't an easy read, but it's an important one.
