“I think that we always need to create the circumstances in which, when women speak out about their pain, about their bodies, about their trauma, they know that they’re going to be listened to,” says Cleghorn, citing Cohen’s campaign as a great example of how, when “women are given the opportunity to speak honestly and openly about their bodies, change can happen”. It was backed by the BBC presenter Naga Munchetty, and prominent authors and journalists Caroline Criado-Perez and Caitlin Moran. In June, Lucy Cohen launched a campaign for better pain relief to be offered to women. Or the pain that some women face when having an IUD fitted. The book challenges medicine’s long-held. From women reporting experiences of menstrual irregularities after being vaccinated, to the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine being halted or restricted due to a small number of rare blood clots found in recipients – a move that left many women questioning why there has never been similar public concern around the increased risk of potential blood clots women face every day, simply as a result of taking certain contraceptives. Shockingand truestories like these pervade medical historian Elinor Cleghorn’s non-fiction debut, Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World, which reveals the history of gendered medicine in a way that is at once scientifically evidenced, personal, and intersectional. During the pandemic it’s become evident that it is still not taken seriously. Drawing on Elinor's own experience as an unwell woman, this is a powerful and timely expose of the medical world and woman's place within it.The legacy of centuries of dismissal of women’s pain lingers to this day. Elinor Cleghorn History Praise for Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World Elinor Cleghorn Readers also viewed Find a book. From the 'wandering womb' of ancient Greece to today's shifting understanding of hormones, menstruation and menopause, Unwell Women is the revolutionary story of women who have suffered, challenged and rewritten medical misogyny. In this ground-breaking history Elinor Cleghorn unpacks the roots of the perpetual misunderstanding, mystification and misdiagnosis of women's bodies, illness and pain. A searing, brilliant investigation, an intricate and urgent book on how womens. Medicine's history has always been, and is still being, rewritten by women's resistance, strength and incredible courage. In Unwell Women Elinor Cleghorn unpacks the roots of the perpetual. But as doctors, researchers, campaigners and most of all as patients, women have continuously challenged medical orthodoxy. Over centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt ashamed of them, were humiliated by them. Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. This history of the medical field’s misunderstanding and mistreatment of women’s bodies is explained in Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World, a new book by British historian Elinor Cleghorn that’s equal parts fascinating and infuriating.
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