Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World is a 2021 non-fiction book by Elinor Cleghorn.

[5] Cleghorn's research covers over 2000 years, beginning with Hippocrates and continuing to 21st-century medicine.

[6] The book has eighteen chapters over three parts: Ancient Greece–Nineteenth Century, Late-Nineteenth Century–1940s, and 1945–present.

[7] Cleghorn was diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus in 2010, following her second pregnancy, after dealing with symptoms for more than ten years.

[8][5][9] This experience led her to research lupus in the 19th-century which gave her insight into the medical treatment and mistreatment of women's pain.