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All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

by Elizabeth Comen

A medical historian traces how women's bodies have been examined, ignored, idealized, and dismissed throughout the history of medicine. Comen reveals the troubling legacy of how early medicine treated women as objects rather than patients, and why these biases persist in contemporary healthcare. A necessary reckoning with medical misogyny and its lasting consequences.

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