All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
By: Elizabeth Comen
4.43
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating history of women’s health as it’s never been told before. For as long as medicin…
Want to Read $ 12.99"The role of women was proscribed in medicine as in society, bolstered by the stereotype of the female nurturer: Doctors cured. Nurses cared."-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
"A man with high testosterone, it was understood, was virile, a warrior, a stud. A woman with too much estrogen, on the other hand, was just crazy."-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
"The idea was just this: that there is something beautiful, and wonderfully feminine, and powerful and empowering at once, about a woman who can’t breathe."-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
"Between the purported sex appeal of tuberculosis and its special deadliness in young people, being afflicted with the disease—or at least, looking like you were—became associated with a certain status. This was a moment at which a woman’s value was strongly tied to femininity, fragility, and purity alike. The consumptive girl lived at the tantalizing nexus of all three: being made at once sexually desirable by sickness yet also too sick to consummate that desire. And her death, heartbreaking as it was, only cemented her status as a sort of archetype of female purity, unsullied by the usual forces that conspired to slowly rob a woman of her value. It was possible, in this moment, to imagine that tuberculosis patients were destined for something greater, something more meaningful, than the ordinary vagaries of a mortal life: when the consumptive girl passed, it would be in a state of unpolluted grace"-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
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4.32
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3.77
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4.15
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4.46
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3.95
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4.21
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15. All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
By: Elizabeth Comen
4.43
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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4.25
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4.34
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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20. Consent: A Memoir
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3.96
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4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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3.97
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
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23. A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
By: Caroline Crampton
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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24. Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America
By: Shefali Luthra
4.40
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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25. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
By: Tia Levings
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more
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26. If Love Could Kill: The Myths and Truths of Women Who Commit Violence
By: Anna Motz
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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By: Elizabeth Dias
4.53
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
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By: Jessica Calarco
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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30. All In Her Head: How Gender Bias Harms Women's Mental Health
By: Misty Pratt
3.78
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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