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. She now works as a freelance writer and researcher and lives in Sussex.Rebecca Mawson is an academic and clinical GP with special interest in sexual and reproductive health inequalities.
In 2017, she was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, and she has since written creatively about her experience of chronic illness for publications including Ache (UK) and Westerly (AUS). She has given talks and lectures at the British Film Institute, where she has been a regular contributor to the education program, Tate Modern, and ICA London, and she has appeared on the BBC Radio 4 discussion show The Forum. 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. In her book UNWELL WOMEN: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World, Cleghorn traces the almost unbelievable history of how medicine has failed women by treating their bodies as alien and other, often to perilous effect.Įlinor Cleghorn has a background in feminist culture and history, and her critical writing has been published in several academic journals, including Screen. As she learned to live with her unpredictable disease she turned to history for answers, and found an enraging legacy of suffering, mystification, and misdiagnosis. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a possible pregnancy. Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago.
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