How Elinor began her research with urgency into her lupus diagnosis and the history of medicine, expanding into other commonly misdiagnosed diseases in women. What brought Elinor to write the book after a lupus diagnosis that followed a very complicated pregnancy with her son.She is the author of Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World, a book that I recommend highly to all our listeners. in 2012, she spent three years as a post-doctoral researcher at the Ruskin School, University of Oxford, where she worked on an interdisciplinary medical humanities project. Elinor Cleghorn is a feminist cultural historian, and her critical writing has been published in several academic journals. Join today’s conversation for deep insight and a message of hope.ĭr. We wonder why we feel unheard and dismissed, and the more we learn, the more enraged we should become about how modern western medicine has treated women with medical and mental health conditions. We, as women, have absorbed much history into ourselves over time regarding our bodies and our health.
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