An empowering manifesto for change in women’s healthcare – exploring the deep rooted sexism and gaslighting, and offering actionable ways that women can advocate for ourselves and others and get the diagnosis and treatment we need.
Health journalist Sarah Graham investigates the gender health gap, in what has been dubbed medicine’s #MeToo moment, as women speak out about their struggle to be taken seriously with physical or mental illness in the face of pervasive and insidious sexism.
Have you ever been to a doctor and felt like you were being fobbed off or ignored? Did they belittle or overlook your concerns about your health? Ever been told you’re just ‘hormonal’? You’re not alone. Women make up 51 per cent of the population and are the biggest users of healthcare services – for themselves and as mothers and carers. But all the research shows there are massive gender differences when it comes to men and women’s healthcare.
Our pain and suffering has been disbelieved; we are misdiagnosed, given tranquilisers when we need painkillers, antidepressants when we need HRT, and not trusted to make informed choices about our own bodies.
Be inspired by women’s stories that will incite, and offer hope. Meet the patients, doctors and campaigners who are standing up and fighting back, and learn from women’s inspiring journeys from the gaslighting that left them questioning their own sanity, or denied any diagnosis at all, to self-advocacy, diagnosis and treatment. You can get the diagnosis and treatment you need. You’re not alone, you’re not going mad, and we believe you.
- ISBN10 1399401114
- ISBN13 9781399401111
- Publish Date 5 January 2023
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Green Tree
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English