Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine And Myth in a Man-Made World By: Elinor Cleghorn [Audiobook]

Author: Elinor Cleghorn
Narrated by: Hanako Footman

‘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.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Book Information
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 Title:                  Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine And Myth in a Man-Made World
 Book Copyright:         2021 Elinor Cleghorn
 Recording Copyright:    2021 Orion Publishing Group
 Publisher:              Weidenfeld & Nicolson
 Genre:                  Health & Wellness
 Author:                 Elinor Cleghorn
 Narrator:               Hanako Footman
 Ripper:                 familiarr_Strangerr
 Source Format:          Audible AAXC
 Source Sample Rate:     44.1 kHz
 Source Channels:        2
 Source Bitrate:         128 kbps
 Lossless Encode:        Yes
 Encoded Codec:          AAC
 Encoded Sample Rate:    44.1 kHz
 Encoded Channels:       2
 Encoded Bitrate:        128 kbps
 Encode Size:            768 MiB
 Release Date:           10-Jun-2021
 Duration:               14 hours, 5 minutes, 46 seconds
 Chapters:               26
Book Description
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"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 expose of the medical world and woman's place within it.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. 

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