Books: Unwell Women: a Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World

Elinor Cleghorn Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, 2021, HB, 496pp, £12.44, 978-1474616850 About 8 years ago, a close friend of mine died of breast cancer. At diagnosis, after a referral delay when she was advised that the lump she felt was benign, she was given a 25% chance of living for 5 years. Following her difficult and distressing death, her husband told me of the consultation with the surgical team at her 12-month follow-up, after enduring...