A review by meltingpages
The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women by Anushay Hossain
challenging
informative
inspiring
sad
3.5
I loved learning about this topic, but I do think the synopsis is a bit misleading. It focuses more on pregnancies and how women are treated by the healthcare system when I thought it would be a variety of different medical topics. It also has a pretty strong focus on COVID-19 and how that is affecting how women give birth, but again, I thought it would cover more on how women are often misdiagnosed in areas other than just pregnancies.
The writing is also a bit weird, a few times I thought that my audiobook was repeating sentences but the author would just repeat herself pretty frequently. I also couldn't quite grasp who exactly this was for, if it was meant to educate people not familiar with the topic or to give additional information to people who know already about reproductive justice. It also skipped around from the author's personal life, to anecdotes from other women, to quoting legislature that was passed or is being lobbied for.
Overall, it's an extremely important topic and the book is definitely worth it for that alone, but it just wasn't what I was expecting it to be.
The writing is also a bit weird, a few times I thought that my audiobook was repeating sentences but the author would just repeat herself pretty frequently. I also couldn't quite grasp who exactly this was for, if it was meant to educate people not familiar with the topic or to give additional information to people who know already about reproductive justice. It also skipped around from the author's personal life, to anecdotes from other women, to quoting legislature that was passed or is being lobbied for.
Overall, it's an extremely important topic and the book is definitely worth it for that alone, but it just wasn't what I was expecting it to be.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Pregnancy, Sexism, and Racism
Minor: Medical trauma and Medical content