What Makes Women Sick - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Makes Women Sick write by Lesley Doyal. This book was released on 1995-06-19. What Makes Women Sick available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lesley Doyal draws on a wide range of disciplines to highlight the limitations of medical models in understanding global patterns of health and disease in women. Examining in detail the impact of sexuality, fertility control, reproduction, domestic labour and waged work on women's well-being, she shows how gender divisions in economic and social life affect their experiences of illness, disability and mortality. A concluding chapter illustrates the multiplicity of ways in which women around the world are challenging the threats to their health.
What Makes Women Sick?
What Makes Women Sick? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Makes Women Sick? write by Susan Starr Sered. This book was released on 2000. What Makes Women Sick? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An eye-opening look at Israeli women's life expectancy and health.
What Makes Girls Sick and Tired
What Makes Girls Sick and Tired - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Makes Girls Sick and Tired write by Lucile de Pesloüan. This book was released on 2019-03-04. What Makes Girls Sick and Tired available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A feminist manifesto exposing the everyday sexism that teenage girls face.
Doing Harm
Doing Harm - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Doing Harm write by Maya Dusenbery. This book was released on 2018-03-06. Doing Harm available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Editor of the award-winning site Feministing.com, Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with doctors and researchers, and personal stories from women across the country to provide the first comprehensive, accessible look at how sexism in medicine harms women today. In Doing Harm, Dusenbery explores the deep, systemic problems that underlie women’s experiences of feeling dismissed by the medical system. Women have been discharged from the emergency room mid-heart attack with a prescription for anti-anxiety meds, while others with autoimmune diseases have been labeled “chronic complainers” for years before being properly diagnosed. Women with endometriosis have been told they are just overreacting to “normal” menstrual cramps, while still others have “contested” illnesses like chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia that, dogged by psychosomatic suspicions, have yet to be fully accepted as “real” diseases by the whole of the profession. An eye-opening read for patients and health care providers alike, Doing Harm shows how women suffer because the medical community knows relatively less about their diseases and bodies and too often doesn’t trust their reports of their symptoms. The research community has neglected conditions that disproportionately affect women and paid little attention to biological differences between the sexes in everything from drug metabolism to the disease factors—even the symptoms of a heart attack. Meanwhile, a long history of viewing women as especially prone to “hysteria” reverberates to the present day, leaving women battling against a stereotype that they’re hypochondriacs whose ailments are likely to be “all in their heads.” Offering a clear-eyed explanation of the root causes of this insidious and entrenched bias and laying out its sometimes catastrophic consequences, Doing Harm is a rallying wake-up call that will change the way we look at health care for women.
Unwell Women
Unwell Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unwell Women write by Elinor Cleghorn. This book was released on 2021-06-08. Unwell Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women’s health—from the earliest medical ideas about women’s illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases—brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative. Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a possible pregnancy. As Elinor learned to live with her unpredictable disease she turned to history for answers, and found an enraging legacy of suffering, mystification, and misdiagnosis. In Unwell Women, Elinor Cleghorn traces the almost unbelievable history of how medicine has failed women by treating their bodies as alien and other, often to perilous effect. The result is an authoritative and groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between women and medical practice, from the "wandering womb" of Ancient Greece to the rise of witch trials across Europe, and from the dawn of hysteria as a catchall for difficult-to-diagnose disorders to the first forays into autoimmunity and the shifting understanding of hormones, menstruation, menopause, and conditions like endometriosis. Packed with character studies and case histories of women who have suffered, challenged, and rewritten medical orthodoxy—and the men who controlled their fate—this is a revolutionary examination of the relationship between women, illness, and medicine. With these case histories, Elinor pays homage to the women who suffered so strides could be made, and shows how being unwell has become normalized in society and culture, where women have long been distrusted as reliable narrators of their own bodies and pain. But the time for real change is long overdue: answers reside in the body, in the testimonies of unwell women—and their lives depend on medicine learning to listen.
