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Elinor Cleghorn fell ill ten years ago. After hearing for a long time that her symptoms ranged from psychosomatic to possible pregnancy, she was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. As she learned to live with her unpredictable illness, she turned to history for answers, and what she found was an outrageous legacy of suffering, mystification, and misdiagnosis. In Sick, Elinor Cleghorn reviews the incredible story of how medicine has failed women by treating their bodies as alien and different, often with dire consequences. The result is a contrasting and groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between women and the practice of medicine, from the idea of ??the "wandering womb" of Ancient Greece, through the rise of witch trials that devastated Europe and the advent of hysteria as a mixed bag for any difficult-to-diagnose disorder, and even the first forays into the study of autoimmune diseases and changes in knowledge about hormones, menstruation, menopause and conditions such as endometriosis.