Season 2: Episode 18: How have unwell women been treated in healthcare?
​With Dr. Elinor Cleghorn

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke chat with Dr. Elinor Cleghorn, author of Unwell Women a new book about the misdiagnosis of women throughout medical history. You can find Cleghorn's book here.
Transcript
Dr Elinor Cleghorn has a background in feminist visual culture and history, and her critical writing has been published in several academic journals including Screen. After receiving her PhD in in 2012, Elinor spent three years as a post-doctoral researcher at the Ruskin School, University of Oxford, working on an interdisciplinary medical humanities project. She has given talks and lectures at the British Film Institute, where she has been a regular contributor to the education programme, Tate Modern, and ICA London, and she has appeared on the BBC Radio 4 discussion show The Forum. In 2017, she was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Editions essay prize. She now works as a freelance writer and researcher, and lives in Sussex. Her non-fiction debut, Unwell Women, will be published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK and by Dutton in the US in June 2021.​
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