Bought at a bookstore in DC summer 2022, read most of it in summer but left for Stanford with like 50 pages left; finished rest in Korea December 2022
“Medicine has historically pathologized what it means to be a woman, and what it is to live in a female body, to such a degree that being unwell has been normalized in society and culture, while a woman’s rights over her own body remain contested even today. But over the centuries of medicine’s long history, women — as doctors, researchers, activists, rebels, campaigners, and, most of all, as patients — have continuously challenged the medical orthodoxy that has insidiously controlled our lives. Medicine’s history has always been, and is still being, rewritten by women’s resistance, strength, intelligence, and incredible courage.”
must-read for everyone imo, especially those in medicine and any woman
author’s personal experience — 7 years of dismisssed symptoms and unhelplful misdiagnoses; only after 2nd pregnancy, diagnosis of lupus; doctors more concerned with baby’s health than the mother/author’s
interesting history going back to ancient Greece, moving through medieval times and up to the present
crazy how recent some medical developments are, and even crazier how we still have so many unanswered questions due to the lack of funding in research and medicine’s misogynistic history
