Elinor Cleghorn

British · 21st century

British writer and researcher whose Unwell Women (2021) traces the history of medicine's treatment and mistreatment of women, from the wandering womb of antiquity to modern misdiagnosis.

Connection to Taylor Swift

Surfaced through community discussion of the mad woman episode, where the hosts traced the hysteria etymology and the wandering-uterus theory from antiquity through medieval theology.

Notable Works

• Unwell Women