Chapter five until chapter eight of the book “Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in Man-Made World” by Elinor Cleghorn brings to us many qualities, facts, and historical events that every college student should be aware of. Clighorn’s arguments are clear and most of the time easy to understand, she is not persuasive in her statements, but rather informative. For every argument she makes she brings reliable pieces of evidence that come from different activists, testimonies, speeches, and historical events. Hence, making the book even more interesting to read and acquire information. Through these chapters, Cleghorn writes about women’s role in medicine but also the consequences that followed up with the lack of women involved in medicine. From …show more content…
In addition, she talked about the pain women go when menstruating, childbirth, or various illnesses. Doctors the majority of them were men assumed that women could handle pain, and all the women who came to say that they were having them were ignored and not taken into account. In chapter six she talks about the misunderstanding of women’s anatomy and the misinformation that came from men doctors that claimed to know so much about it. She wrote about the whole social construct of “breaking the hymen” which was seen as so sacred and left so many women misdiagnosed because it was a part of the body that was not allowed to touch. In chapter seven Cledhorn elaborates on gender roles, how they impacted medicine, and specific cases of misogynistic doctors that were ignorant of women’s health. In the chapter, it was saddening to read how in a lot of cases where women were going through pain and had symptoms of vomiting, bleeding, and crying the doctors said they were just being historical. The truth was that the male doctors were not knowledgeable to find the source of the pain or diagnose the