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Welcome to the WZ Book Club.
This is Jordan Rich, a very important

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new book on the medical front written
by medical historian and memorial Sloan Kettering oncologist

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Elizabeth Coleman. It's entitled All in
Her Head, The Truth and lies early

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medicine taught us about women's bodies and
why it matters today. The author explores

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the doctors who shape the field of
medicine, just about all of whom were

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men, and it's a very unfortunate
and sordid history for female patients back in

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the day, from the eighteenth century
sanitariums to the hospitals of the ante bellum

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South. Even today, women are
told not to worry about your symptoms.

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They're all in your head, blaming
your symptoms on hormones. Why the field

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of cardiac medicine is struggling to catch
up after years of excluding women from diagnoses,

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treatment and research. As doctor Coleman
points out, the purpose of my

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book is not to ruin your faith
in medicine, nor to point fingers at

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the men who made it what it
is, but to illuminate the narratives that

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began with them and still surround us
today about women's bodies. Health needs and

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desires, all in her head.
The truth and lies early medicine taught us

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about women's bodies and why it matters
today. The Book Club WBZ, Boston

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