Summary of Elinor Cleghorn's Unwell Women

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Sample Book Insights:

#1 The Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of medical discourse attributed to Hippocrates of Kos, the Greek physician known as the father of medicine, from the Classical era, fourth and fifth centuries BCE, revolutionized medicine. He taught that ill health arose from imbalances in the body, and he invented the patient case study.

#2 The Hippocratic Corpus, which was written by Hippocrates, was based on the teachings of him and his followers. It described many different symptoms that women suffered from, from puberty to menstruation to pregnancy and menopause.

#3 The Hippocratic Corpus, written around the mid-third century BCE, described the uterus as a living creature that became vexed and aggrieved if its desires for childbearing were not met.

#4 The uterus was considered the dominant force behind so many illnesses and symptoms of women in ancient Greece and Rome. Christian theology and mythology spread these beliefs across Europe in the first century CE, and medical writings legitimized this by making women’s bodies subordinate to the whims of their organs.