It would take a man’s pleasure to fix this unwell woman. His prescription? Marriage and penetrative sex to release the blockage. His diagnosis was that as the girl had gone through puberty but was not yet married her body must be overfilled with menstrual blood, such that it had oozed into her veins and turned her mad. The famous physician, Hippocrates of Cos, (of Hippocratic Oath fame) was called to help. In fact, her symptoms were so severe that she considered taking her own life, just to escape them. ISSN 0000-0019.Thousands of years ago, a teenage girl walked the streets at night, suffering from pain, high fever, and disturbing hallucinations. ^ 'Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World'.

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Cleghorn's experiences with lupus are chronicled in Unwell Women. This experience led her to research lupus in the 19th-century which gave her insight into the medical treatment and mistreatment of women's pain. Development Ĭleghorn was diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus in 2010, following her second pregnancy, after dealing with symptoms for more than ten years. The book has eighteen chapters over three parts: Ancient Greece– Nineteenth Century, Late-Nineteenth Century– 1940s, and 1945–Present. Cleghorn's research covers over 2000 years, beginning with Hippocrates and continuing to 21st-century medicine. The book's feminist critiques focus largely on medical practice in the United States and United Kingdom. In Unwell Women, British cultural historian Cleghorn provides a history of the ways in which western medicine has abused and dismissed women and women's health issues.

Cleghorn provides a cultural history of the impacts of misogyny on western medicine and western medical practice. Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World is a 2021 non-fiction book by Elinor Cleghorn.

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