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Cargando... Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine And Myth in a Man-Made World (2021 original; edición 2021)por Elinor Cleghorn (Autor)
Información de la obraUnwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World por Elinor Cleghorn (2021)
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. http://olvasonaplo.net/olvasonaplo/2023/10/20/elinor-cleghorn-szenvedo-nok/ ( ) This is infuriating and frustrating and just so sad. Who put men in charge any way. They have been in control to the detriment of women and likely themselves for far too long. (Please, do I really need to say not all men still?) Instead of believing women about their own bodies, men believe absurd and idiotic things regarding their pain and functions. I only go to female doctors if I can help it, even today. This is a really tricky one to rate. On the one hand, Elinor Cleghorn writes with convincing passion about how the long-standing patriarchal biases of the medical profession have resulted in the misunderstanding of women's illnesses and suffering, and have often compounded them. (Cleghorn looks at western Europe fairly broadly in the early part of the book, but the closer she gets to the present day the more she focuses on Anglophone bio-medicine in the UK and US.) I appreciated her awareness of how race and class affect how women are treated: wealthy white women might be patronised or infantilised about their illnesses, but Black women's pain is often dismissed by physicians as non-existent. Some of the events Cleghorn recounts are really horrific, like the early testing of the contraceptive pill on poor and mostly illiterate Puerto Rican women who were unable to give informed consent and who suffered horrific side effects. On the other hand, Cleghorn isn't actually a trained historian of medicine (her Ph.D. is in "humanities and cultural studies", and her dissertation appears to have been on twentieth-century dance and film studies), and it shows. Her understanding of ancient and medieval history simply isn't strong, either in the general terms or in the specifics of medical history. There are factual errors (no, Gutenberg didn't invent the printing press in 1500; no, dissection was not illegal in the Middle Ages), simplistic presentations of medieval women like Jacoba Felicie and Trota (the yas queen framing of the latter in particular had me side-eyeing), and an overall reliance on cliché not grounded in any real knowledge of pre-modern history (the Middle Ages as a "time of superstition" while the eighteenth-century was one of enlightenment—both characterisations that don't quite work because they're founded on a Whiggish belief in history as an upward trajectory). Cleghorn is writing with the goal of improving the lot of women in the present day, and that is an admirable goal! But at least in the earlier chapters of the book I could see a tendency on her part to highlight aspects of history that are more dramatic and emotive than necessarily illuminating for the topic at hand. Did the witchcraft trials (presented here as medieval but far more an early modern phenomenon) exert more of a force on how women were treated in medical situations than, say, the development of coverture laws? I don't think so. But the former topic is "sexier" and more dramatic than the latter, and I imagine far better known. Plus, the fact that there medieval feme sole and that economic opportunities for women may well have constricted in the early modern period would be another point that would jar a bit with that Whiggish trajectory that is one of the book's unquestioned assumptions. Take my three-star rating here as being a rough average of her overall argument (five stars) and Unwell Women as a work of history (two stars).
Cleghorn marshals her ambitious quantity of material with clarity and often with dry humour, but there is a sustained note of justified anger running through the book. Distinciones
Sociology.
Women's Studies.
Nonfiction.
Un repaso histórico de las primeras cuestiones médicas sobre las enfermedades de las mujeres, pasando por las hormonas y hasta las enfermedades autoinmunes, escrito en un estilo fascinante y cautivador que dará mucho que hablar sobre la salud femenina. Elinor Cleghorn enfermó hace diez años. Después de mucho tiempo oyendo que sus sÃntomas eran desde psicosomáticos hasta un posible embarazo, le diagnosticaron una enfermedad autoinmune. Mientras aprendÃa a convivir con su impredecible enfermedad, recurrió a la historia en busca de respuestas, y lo que encontró fue un indignante legado de sufrimiento, mistificación y diagnósticos erróneos. En Enfermas, Elinor Cleghorn repasa la increÃble historia de cómo la medicina ha defraudado a las mujeres al tratar sus cuerpos como algo ajeno y diferente, a menudo con unas consecuencias nefastas. El resultado es una exploración contrastada y rompedora sobre la relación entre la mujer y la práctica de la medicina, desde la idea del «útero errante» de la Antigua Grecia, pasando por el auge de los juicios por brujerÃa que asolaron Europa y el advenimiento de la histeria como cajón de sastre para todo trastorno difÃcil de diagnosticar, y hasta las primeras incursiones en el estudio de las enfermedades autoinmunes y los cambios en el conocimiento sobre las hormonas, la menstruación, la menopausia y afecciones como la endometriosis. Repleto de estudios de casos de mujeres que han sufrido, se han enfrentado a la ortodoxia médica y la han rescrito â??y de los hombres que controlaron sus destinosâ??, este libro ofrece un análisis revolucionario sobre la relación entre las mujeres, las enfermedades y la medicina. Cleghorn se adentra en estos casos en un homenaje a las mujeres que sufrieron para que la medicina avanzara, y demuestra lo normalizada que está la enfermedad en la sociedad y la cultura, donde hace mucho que a las mujeres no se les da el crédito que merecen como testigos de sus propias experiencias corporales y su dolor. Hace mucho que urge un cambio de perspectiva: las respuestas se encuentran en el cuerpo, en los relatos de las mujeres enfermas. Y las vid No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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