In the spirit of Sid Mukherjee\'s Emperor of All Maladies , a groundbreaking medical history that is both a collective narrative of women\'s Bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around personal health, self-improvement, and the future of healthcare for everyone.
Eye-opening, sometimes enraging, yet always captivating, this shared memoir of women\'s medical history is an essential contribution to a holistic understanding and much-needed reclaiming of women\'s history and bodies..
Empowering women to better understand ourselves and advocate for care that prioritizes healthy and joyful lives-- for us and generations to come-- All in Her Head is written with humor, wisdom, and deep scientific and cultural insight.
Comen follows the road map of the eleven organ systems to share unique and untold stories, drawing upon medical texts and journals, interviews with expert physicians, as well as her own experience treating thousands of women.
With a physician\'s knowledge and empathy, Dr.
Elizabeth Comen peels back the curtain on the collective medical history of women to reintroduce us to our whole bodies--how they work, the actual doctors and patients whose perspectives and experiences laid the foundation for today\'s medical thought, and the many oversights that still remain unaddressed.
Memorial Sloan Kettering oncologist and medical historian Dr.
While the modern age has seen significant advancements in the medical field, the notion that female Bodies are flawed inversions of the male ideal lingers on--as do the pervasive societal stigmas and lingering ignorance that shape women\'s health and relationships with their own bodies.
The result is a cultural and societal leg-acy that continues to shape the (mis)treatment and care of women.
The history of women\'s healthcare is a story in which women themselves have too often been voiceless--a narrative instead written from the perspective of men who styled themselves as authorities on the female of the species, yet uninformed by women\'s own voices, thoughts, fears, pain and experiences.
For as long as Medicine has been a practice, women\'s Bodies have been treated like objects to be practiced on: examined and ignored, idealized and sexualized, shamed, subjugated, mutilated, and dismissed.
In the spirit of Sid Mukherjee\'s Emperor of All Maladies , a groundbreaking medical history that is both a collective narrative of women\'s Bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around personal health, self-improvement, and the future of healthcare for everyone
