All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us about Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

Title: All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us about Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today Author: Elizabeth Comen ISBN: 9780063293014 Publisher: Harper Wave Published: 2024 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher History 1588391 Publisher Description: A surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of women's bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around women's health. For as long as medicine has been a practice, women's bodies have been treated like objects to be practiced on: examined and ignored, idealized and sexualized, shamed, subjugated, mutilated, and dismissed. The history of women's healthcare is a story in which women themselves have too often been voiceless--a narrative instead written from the perspective of men who styled themselves as authori