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UNWELL WOMEN : A JOURNEY THROUGH MEDICINE AND MYTH IN A MAN-MADE WORLD
UNWELL WOMEN : A JOURNEY THROUGH MEDICINE AND MYTH IN A MAN-MADE WORLD
Seamlessly melding scholarship with passion, Unwell Women is the definition of unputdownable TelegraphA richly detailed, wide-ranging and enraging history... Unwell Women is not just a compelling investigation, but an essential one ObserverA passionate and indignant history The TimesA searing, brilliant investigation, an intricate and urgent book on how womens health has constantly been misunderstood and miscast throughout history Kate WilliamsOne of the most important books of our generation Fern RiddellUNWELL WOMEN is a powerful and fascinating book that takes an unsparing look at how womens bodies have been misunderstood and misdiagnosed for centuries. Lindsey FitzharrisWe are taught that medicine is the art of solving our bodys mysteries. And as a science, we expect medicine to uphold the principles of evidence and impartiality. We want our doctors to listen to us and care for us as people, but we also need their assessments of our pain and fevers, aches and exhaustion to be free of any prejudice about who we are, our gender, or the colour of our skin. But medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. The history of medicine, of illness, is a history of people, of their bodies and their lives, not just physicians, surgeons, clinicians and researchers. And medical progress has always reflected the realities of a changing world, and the meanings of being human.In Unwell Women Elinor Cleghorn unpacks the roots of the perpetual misunderstanding, mystification and misdiagnosis of womens bodies, and traces the journey from the wandering womb of ancient Greece, the rise of witch trials in Medieval Europe, through the dawn of Hysteria, to modern day understandings of autoimmune diseases, the menopause and conditions like endometriosis. Packed with character studies of women who have suffered, challenged and rewritten medical orthodoxy - and drawing on her own experience of un-diagnosed Lupus disease - this is a ground-breaking and timely expose of the medica
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Ομάδα: Αγγλικά
Κατηγορία: Επιστημονικά/Βιογραφίες
Οικογένεια: Ξενόγλωσσα Λογοτεχνικά
Ομάδα: Αγγλικά
Κατηγορία: Επιστημονικά/Βιογραφίες
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THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF AN ORDINARY MAN: A MEMOIR
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ISBN: 978-1-80494-090-7
Εκδότης: Cornerstone
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