Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn - ISBN: 9781474616874
Paperback
Women’s bodies, a history of misunderstanding, defiance, and rewrite.

Unwell Women

A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World

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  • Paperback

    496 pages

  • Release Date

    15 November 2022

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Summary

THE NEW BOOK FROM ELINOR CLEGHORN: A WOMAN’S WORK IS OUT NOW ‘An essential history’ - Leah Hazard

‘Powerful’ ‘A passionate and indignant history’ ‘Unputdownable’

Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women’s bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt ashamed of them, were humiliated by them. But as doctors, researchers, campaigners and most of all as patients, women have continuously challenged medical orthodoxy. Medi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781474616874
ISBN-10:1474616879
Author:Elinor Cleghorn
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:496
Release Date:15 November 2022
Weight:400g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 36mm
About The Author

Elinor Cleghorn

Elinor Cleghorn is a feminist cultural historian, writer and researcher living in Sussex, UK. After receiving her PhD in humanities and cultural studies in 2012, she worked for three years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford on an interdisciplinary arts and medical humanities project. Her writing on women’s health and its histories has been published in Wall Street Journal, BBC History Magazine, BBC Science Focus, New Scientist, and Vogue, and she has discussed her research on BBC Woman’s Hour, NPR, and numerous podcasts. Elinor is the author of Unwell Women, which was published in 2021 in the UK and US, and has been translated across the world.

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