Elinor describes systemic medical sexism and prejudice which compounds adverse outcomes for ethnic or sexual minority groups. Unwell Women poses questions about how medicine and doctors have been complicit in punishment, silencing and oppressing women. I felt somehow responsible for the terrible injustices that women suffered at the hands of our medieval predecessors. This historical behaviour of our profession runs deep within all our institutions and learning. This book has had a huge impact on the way I think about the diagnosis and management of women in my general practice consultations.Īs a doctor, Unwell Women makes challenging and uncomfortable reading as it describes the misogyny and discrimination against women through the ages. It tells of misdiagnosis, manipulation and myth in a male-dominated domain. U nwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn is a remarkable portrayal of the medical management of women throughout the centuries. Rebecca Mawson is an academic and clinical GP with special interest in sexual and reproductive health inequalities.
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