A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women's health--from the earliest medical ideas about women's illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases--brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative.
Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a possible pregnancy. As Elinor learned to live with her unpredictable disease she turned to history for answers and found an enraging legacy of suffering, mystification, and misdiagnosis.
In Unwell Women, Elinor Cleghorn traces the almost unbelievable history of how medicine has failed women by treating their bodies as alien and other, often to perilous effect. The result is an authoritative and groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between women and medical practice, from the "wandering womb" of Ancient Greece to the rise of witch trials across Europe, and from the dawn of hysteria as a catchall for difficult-to-diagnose disorders to the first forays into autoimmunity and the shifting understanding of hormones, menstruation, menopause, and conditions like endometriosis.
Packed with character studies and case histories of women who have suffered, challenged, and rewritten medical orthodoxy--and the men who controlled their fate--this is a revolutionary examination of the relationship between women, illness, and medicine. With these case histories, Elinor pays homage to the women who suffered so strides could be made and shows how being unwell has become normalized in society and culture, where women have long been distrusted as reliable narrators of their own bodies and pain. But the time for real change is long overdue: answers reside in the body, in the testimonies of unwell women--and their lives depend on medicine learning to listen.
1 有用 辛维木 2022-03-05 09:14:43
想到周围的女医生,我们真的是在享受革命的果实,路是由前人用血泪铺成的。但关于女性身体的科学研究还是远远不够
0 有用 早睡大王 2021-12-18 06:15:25
Women's medical history has been one of literal blood, pain, sweat, persecution, and silencing. I listened to the book on 2x speed but was nevertheless infuriated by some historical treatment of women... Women's medical history has been one of literal blood, pain, sweat, persecution, and silencing. I listened to the book on 2x speed but was nevertheless infuriated by some historical treatment of women, which did not subside, but just took on a more subtle form. Contains great information, but somehow didn't feel as compelling as I imagined it to be (展开)
0 有用 Suri 2022-05-16 06:58:12
What was demanded as a "right" for the privileged came to be interpreted as a "duty" for the poor
1 有用 椒盐豆豉 2022-07-18 14:34:55
我不大适应这种不是特别 structured 的 case study,更何况内容本身就已经很让人难受了。
0 有用 香槟塔 2021-08-21 02:40:04
内容太伤神了,女性医疗史真的是太惨了。
1 有用 椒盐豆豉 2022-07-18 14:34:55
我不大适应这种不是特别 structured 的 case study,更何况内容本身就已经很让人难受了。
0 有用 Suri 2022-05-16 06:58:12
What was demanded as a "right" for the privileged came to be interpreted as a "duty" for the poor
1 有用 辛维木 2022-03-05 09:14:43
想到周围的女医生,我们真的是在享受革命的果实,路是由前人用血泪铺成的。但关于女性身体的科学研究还是远远不够
0 有用 早睡大王 2021-12-18 06:15:25
Women's medical history has been one of literal blood, pain, sweat, persecution, and silencing. I listened to the book on 2x speed but was nevertheless infuriated by some historical treatment of women... Women's medical history has been one of literal blood, pain, sweat, persecution, and silencing. I listened to the book on 2x speed but was nevertheless infuriated by some historical treatment of women, which did not subside, but just took on a more subtle form. Contains great information, but somehow didn't feel as compelling as I imagined it to be (展开)
0 有用 子扉我[已注销] 2021-08-27 18:40:15
https://athenacool.wordpress.com/2021/06/15/unwell-women/