Hippocrates, the founder of modern medicine, believed that women were controlled by their uteruses. The history of medicine is every bit as social and cultural as it is scientific, and male dominance is cemented in its foundations. “Luckily for me, the men who wrote about women’s bodies like to write a lot about them,” she chuckles.) Photograph: Lara DownieThese “kindred women” galvanized Cleghorn to learn about other chronic, incurable diseases that affect more women than men. Although it was named in the 1920s, all of its diagnostic mysteries remain today, Cleghorn notes.

Source: The Guardian June 08, 2021 05:03 UTC