Women's Healthcare Has Been a Horror Story

  

I read a lot of horror, but the most horrible thing is what people do to other people. Reading Unwell Women would almost be funny until the reader remembers that all these bizarre things really happened to women and happened to women for thousands of years. Even until the 1950's most medical problems of women were blamed on their reproductive organs and problems with their reproductive organs were blamed on mental illness. Even today, with autoimmune diseases, it takes only two years for a man to be diagnosed but 7 years for a woman to be diagnosed with diseases like MS or Lupus. Why? Because men's pain is considered to be real and women's pain is considered imaginary. 

One of the most bizarre things was that doctors used to think that a uterus could travel through a woman's body and caused all kinds of havoc, including strangling her. I can see myself writing a story about a wandering uterus that commits crimes. I'll call it Murderous Uterus. To Womb it May Concern.

I would buy this book to keep on hand for research. The strangest things have been done to women, and believed about women, in the name of medical care.

Thank you to Netgalley for allowing me to review a digital copy of Unwell Women.