Unwell Women Explained

Italic Title:Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World
Caption:First edition (UK)
Author:Elinor Cleghorn
Genre:Non-fiction
Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World
Publisher:
  • Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK – 2021)
  • Dutton (US – 2021)
Published:2021
Isbn:978-0-593-18295-6

Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World is a 2021 non-fiction book by Elinor Cleghorn. Cleghorn provides a cultural history of the impacts of misogyny on western medicine and western medical practice.[1]

Summary

In Unwell Women, British cultural historian Cleghorn provides a history of the ways in which western medicine has abused and dismissed women and women's health issues.[2] [3] [4] The book's feminist critiques focus largely on medical practice in the United States and United Kingdom.[5] Cleghorn's research covers over 2000 years, beginning with Hippocrates and continuing to 21st-century medicine.[6] The book has eighteen chapters over three parts: Ancient Greece–Nineteenth Century, Late-Nineteenth Century–1940s, and 1945–present.[7]

Development

Cleghorn was diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus in 2010, following her second pregnancy, after dealing with symptoms for more than ten years.[8] [9] This experience led her to research lupus in the 19th-century which gave her insight into the medical treatment and mistreatment of women's pain.[10] Cleghorn's experiences with lupus are chronicled in Unwell Women.[11] [12]

Notes and References

  1. Gawrylewski . Andrea . May 2021 . Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World . Scientific American . 324 . 5 . 76.
  2. Web site: Merritt . Stephanie . 2021-06-07 . Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn review – battle for the female body . 2022-04-03 . the Guardian . en.
  3. News: Harrington . Mary . Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn review — medicine, it's a man's world . en . The Times . 2022-04-03 . 0140-0460.
  4. Hoda . Raza S. . Hoda . Syed . 2021-12-10 . Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World . American Journal of Clinical Pathology . 157 . 5 . 799 . 10.1093/ajcp/aqab152.
  5. Web site: Praseed . Malavika . 2021-06-09 . Anguish and Acknowledgment in "Unwell Women" . 2022-04-03 . Chicago Review of Books . en-US.
  6. Web site: Burda . Joan M. . 2021 . Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World . 2022-04-03 . New York Journal of Books.
  7. Ellialtı-Köse . Tuğçe . 2021-12-07 . Book review: Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-made World by Elinor Clegnor . European Journal of Women's Studies . 29 . 195–198 . 10.1177/13505068211065664. 245110400 .
  8. Web site: Buckley . Julia . 2021-07-01 . Unwell Women is a 2000-year history of society weaponising medicine against women . 2022-04-03 . inews.co.uk . en.
  9. Web site: Young . Penny Grace . 2021 . Medicine, Myths, and Mystification: On Elinor Cleghorn's Unwell Women . 2022-04-03 . Lady Science . en-US.
  10. Web site: Poplett . Georgia . 2022-02-04 . An interview with Elinor Cleghorn: "History is not a linear road to good" . 2022-04-03 . Lucy Writers Platform . en-GB.
  11. Web site: Bunt . Lydia . 2021-06-14 . Elinor Cleghorn: Unwell Women review – misunderstanding and misdiagnosis . 2022-04-03 . theartsdesk.com . en.
  12. 2021-03-15 . Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World. . Publishers Weekly . 268 . 11 . 55–56 . 0000-0019.

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