Welcome to the WZ Book Club. This is Jordan Rich, a very important
new book on the medical front written by medical historian and memorial Sloan Kettering oncologist
Elizabeth Coleman. It's entitled All in Her Head, The Truth and lies early
medicine taught us about women's bodies and why it matters today. The author explores
the doctors who shape the field of medicine, just about all of whom were
men, and it's a very unfortunate and sordid history for female patients back in
the day, from the eighteenth century sanitariums to the hospitals of the ante bellum
South. Even today, women are told not to worry about your symptoms.
They're all in your head, blaming your symptoms on hormones. Why the field
of cardiac medicine is struggling to catch up after years of excluding women from diagnoses,
treatment and research. As doctor Coleman points out, the purpose of my
book is not to ruin your faith in medicine, nor to point fingers at
the men who made it what it is, but to illuminate the narratives that
began with them and still surround us today about women's bodies. Health needs and
desires, all in her head. The truth and lies early medicine taught us
about women's bodies and why it matters today. The Book Club WBZ, Boston
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