Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
By: Maya Dusenbery
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this shocking, hard-hitting expose in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the e…
Want to Read $ 14.99"As one patient with chronic fatigue syndrome put it, 'The difference between a crazed neurotic and a seriously ill person is simply a test."-Maya Dusenbery, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
"As one patient with chronic fatigue syndrome put it, 'The difference between a crazed neurotic and a seriously ill person is simply a test."-Maya Dusenbery, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
"To be sure, depression, anxiety, and prolonged stress can cause specific physical symptoms, but these symptoms are not limitless, nor are they actually unexplained. When doctors invoke these labels for symptoms as diverse as vomiting, paralysis, and sever, unending pain, it is the concept of the somatoform disorders--hysteria dressed up in modern garb-- that allows them to do so."-Maya Dusenbery, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
"To be sure, depression, anxiety, and prolonged stress can cause specific physical symptoms, but these symptoms are not limitless, nor are they actually unexplained. When doctors invoke these labels for symptoms as diverse as vomiting, paralysis, and sever, unending pain, it is the concept of the somatoform disorders--hysteria dressed up in modern garb-- that allows them to do so."-Maya Dusenbery, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
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1. Every Frenchman Has One
By: Olivia de Havilland
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Olivia de Havilland planted her standard on the Left Bank of the River Seine in late October of 195… read more
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2. The Doctor Will See You Now: Recognizing and Treating Endometriosis
By: Padma Lakshmi , Tamer Seckin , William Croyle
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
Endometriosis materializes when the endometrium - the tissue that lines the inside of the uterus - … read more
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3. American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century
By: Paula Uruburu
3.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The scandalous story of America's first supermodel, sex goddess, and modern celebrity, Evelyn Nesbi… read more
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4. Pain and Prejudice: A Call to Arms for Women and Their Bodies
By: Gabrielle Jackson
4.16
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
A timely and powerful look at how our culture treats the pain and suffering of women. 'Women are… read more
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5. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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6. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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7. When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
By: Joshua D. Mezrich
4.23
Format: 384 pages, ebook
At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs fro… read more
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"Po powrocie do Oxfordu Medawar skupił się całkowicie na sprawdzeniu hipotezy, że odrzucanie przeszczepu allogenicznego jest zjawiskiem immunologicznym."-Joshua D. Mezrich, When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
"The sick suffer alone, they undergo procedures and surgeries alone, and in the end, they die alone. Transplant is different. Transplant is all about having someone else join you in your illness. It m…"-Joshua D. Mezrich, When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
8. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
4.14
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Natha… read more
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9. Empty
By: Susan Burton
3.78
Format: 283 pages, Hardcover
An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated… read more
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"Most people had a history in this region, but not my parents, and my early, defining relationship to my environment was a feeling of being not from here, even though I had never lived in any other pl…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"...it allowed me to engage with my experience intellectually instead of practically, to analyze it instead of trying to fix it. And it demonstrated how another woman, in another time, had struggled w…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"It showed me one thing that being an adult meant. You were no longer limited to observing the world: Now you can join in. Instead of just being a fan of things you loved, you could get inside them. Y…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"I was struck, though, that even as the women share their experiences, they seem to remain essentially alone in them. They tell their stories, but they do not seem to connect with the others in doing …"-Susan Burton, Empty
10. Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
By: Elinor Cleghorn
4.11
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women's health--from the earliest medical ideas ab… read more
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"For centuries, medicine has claimed that women are defined by their bodies and biology. But we have never been respected as reliable narrators of what happens to our bodies. We are denied agency beca…"-Elinor Cleghorn, Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
11. In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
By: Fiona Sampson
3.62
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
We know the facts of Mary Shelley’s life in some detail—the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraf… read more
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12. Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
By: Abby Norman
3.93
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For any woman who has experienced illness, chronic pain, or endometriosis comes an inspiring memoir… read more
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"I was not a ghost. I was a little girl with needs and wants and allergies. Still, I hung soundlessly, as weightlessly as I could, in the air. The living can haunt a house, too."-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
"In retrospect, that was the moment I realized my ignorance was going to exacerbate whatever the problem was, and that I had to prescribe myself some kind of medical education, at least as it pertaine…"-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
"So often we think that the truth is a static entity that exists only in a singular place--a place that we have to find. But I have come to realize that the answers I have been looking for, the truth …"-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
"Where a woman is in her menstrual cycle also influences how her body metabolizes, well, anything. Researchers know this: that's why, when they do include women in trials, they design the research so …"-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
13. Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
By: Maya Dusenbery
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this shocking, hard-hitting expose in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the e… read more
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"As one patient with chronic fatigue syndrome put it, 'The difference between a crazed neurotic and a seriously ill person is simply a test."-Maya Dusenbery, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
"To be sure, depression, anxiety, and prolonged stress can cause specific physical symptoms, but these symptoms are not limitless, nor are they actually unexplained. When doctors invoke these labels f…"-Maya Dusenbery, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
"Indeed, these two contradictory extremes that medicine has tended to vacillate between: either women's reproductive functions are pathologized as innately abnormal - in which case any symptoms they b…"-Maya Dusenbery, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
14. Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine
By: Michele Lent Hirsch
4.06
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of women navigating serious health issues at an age where they're expected to be hea… read more
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"Shared physical vulnerability, we learned, can become a bizarre aphrodisiac, A bond that is gross and uncomfortable but ultimately positive. Not so when it is just one of you and the health issue isn…"-Michele Lent Hirsch, Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine
"Language is a tricky thing, especially when we try to capture what's happening in our bodies and in our culture. Words like "health," "healthy," "sick," "illness," and "disability" are always relativ…"-Michele Lent Hirsch, Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine
"Maybe it sounds like a compliment, You're too young , something to show that you look youthful and vibrant and all. Maybe it's just a refrain I should learn to ignore. But when I talk with other youn…"-Michele Lent Hirsch, Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine
"A number of people I've interviewed have gently pointed out that a disability doesn't have to look like the one clean narrative we see in movies or on feel-good shows, the kind where a person using a…"-Michele Lent Hirsch, Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine
15. Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution
By: Jennifer Block
4.17
Format: 283 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening, investigative account of the dismal state of women's healthcare in the U.S. One … read more
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16. Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power
By: Rose Hackman
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“ An urgent look at emotional labor ....Hackman’s words reveal the agency of women is still possibl… read more
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17. Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do About It
By: Alyson J. McGregor
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A clarion call about the dangers of medicine for women, as well as a manual for how women can get t… read more
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18. Period: The Real Story of Menstruation
By: Kate Clancy
3.97
Format: 249 pages, Hardcover
A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruation Men… read more
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19. Bleed: Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care
By: Tracey Lindeman
4.36
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A scorching examination of how we treat endometriosis today Have you ever been told that your pa… read more
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20. No Cure for the Dead (Florence Nightingale Mystery #1)
By: Christine Trent
3.67
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
When a young nurse dies on her watch, Florence Nightingale must uncover the deep-hidden secrets som… read more
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21. Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote
By: Tina Cassidy
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this “heroic narrative” ( The Wall Street Journal ), discover the inspiring and timely account o… read more
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