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All in Her Head
The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today
Author: Elizabeth Comen
Narrator: Anna Caputo
Unabridged: 13 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 02/13/2024
Category: Health & Fitness - Women's Health
Synopsis
A surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of womenâs bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around womenâs 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 womenâs healthcare is a story in which women themselves have too often been voicelessâa narrative instead written from the perspective of men who styled themselves as authorities on the female of the species, yet uninformed by womenâs own voices, thoughts, fears, pain and experiences. The result is a cultural and societal legÂacy that continues to shape the (mis)treatment and care of women.While the modern age has seen significant advancements in the medical field, the notion that female bodies are flawed inversions of the male ideal lingers onâas do the pervasive societal stigmas and lingering ignorance that shape womenâs health and relationships with their own bodies.Memorial Sloan Kettering oncologist and medical historian Dr. Elizabeth Comen draws back the curtain on the collective medical history of women to reintroduce us to our whole bodiesâhow they work, the actual doctors and patients whose perspectives and experiences laid the foundation for todayâs medical thought, and the many oversights that still remain unaddressed. With a physicianâs knowledge and empathy, Dr. Comen follows the road map of the eleven organ systems to share unique and untold stories, drawing upon medical texts and journals, interviews with expert physicians, as well as her own experience treating thousands of women.Empowering women to better understand ourselves and advocate for care that prioritizes healthy and joyful livesâ for us and generations to comeâAll in Her Head is written with humor, wisdom, and deep scientific and cultural insight. Eye-opening, sometimes enraging, yet always captivating, this shared memoir of womenâs medical history is an essential contribution to a holistic understanding and much-needed reclaiming of womenâs history and bodies.