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Books: The Time-Tested Cure for Doldrum & Tedium! 

Warning: proven side effects of reading books include critical thinking and the development of opinions.

The Unwell Women book being held up in front of a display in the museum featuring objects from women's medicine and domestic health

Book of the Month

Our Book of the Month for July – reviewed by Jenni, the museum's Community Engagement Officer – is Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn.

Travelling from ancient Greek understandings of wandering wombs that could only be controlled by childbearing to modern conceptions of chronic illness as fabricated, Cleghorn shapes a story about a side to medical history that is rarely considered, despite affecting half the population.

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