First published 2021
Diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after years of dismissed symptoms, Elinor Cleghorn embarks on a searing investigation of how medicine has failed women. Tracing a legacy of suffering, mystification, and misdiagnosis, she reveals the shocking ways women's bodies have been treated as alien and other - often to perilous effect. Cleghorn's powerful work exposes the deep-rooted distrust of women as reliable narrators of their own pain.
Genres: medical, gender-studies, feminism, biography-memoir, health, history-of-medicine, 21st-century, academic
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: investigative-journalism, personal-narrative
478 pages · Paperback · W&N
Content warnings: ableism, sexism