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All in Her Head 2024
All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today is a 2024 non-fiction book written by American oncologist Elizabeth Comen.
The work examines the history of how women have been treated in medicine, moving through each of the eleven body systems that doctors study today. An excerpt from the chapter focusing on the integumentary system—skin—was featured by Elle magazine. Elizabeth Lesser commented that the book "exposes the shocking, infuriating, and heartbreaking medical myths and practices that have haunted the care and treatment of women for millennia—myths about the inherent inferiority and weakness of the female body that are still with us today." Publishers Weekly reviewer called it "Meticulously researched and conveyed in lucid prose", adding that it "fascinates and outrages in equal measure."
The book was a finalist for the 2025 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and also ranked as a USA Today bestseller. It was included in "The 15 best books we read in February 2024" by The New York Post, and featured in a list of five picks for Women's History Month by an Amazon editorial director.
Elizabeth Comen is a breast cancer oncologist at NYU Langone Health, previously working at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and as assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine.
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- Publisher
- Harper Wave
- ISBN
- 9780063293014
