Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-made World

In Unwell Women Elinor Cleghorn unpacks the perpetual misunderstanding, mystification and misdiagnosis of women's bodies, tracing 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 exposé of the medical world and woman's place within it.

Paperback, 496 pages.