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    Feb 10, 2020 3 minutes

    Rave Review

    Pain and Prejudice A Call to Arms for Women and their Bodies

    Gabrielle Jackson (Allen & Unwin, $33)

    I have chronic illnesses and pain, and have been disbelieved and patronised by some health professionals. So I’m glad the associate news editor has written up her global investigation into how women with various illnesses (most notably chronic pain) are often doubted, disregarded, misdiagnosed and mistreated – even described as “hysterics” – and subsequently suffer in silence. Jackson describes her own

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