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‘Moving, furious and full of hope’ ELINOR CLEGHORN
‘Superbly written’ DR. LOUISE NEWSON
‘Validating and empowering’ ABBY NORMAN
‘Heroic’ KAREN HAVELIN

Throughout their lives, women are taught that it is normal to live in pain. In this urgent investigation into medical misogyny, Evelyn Scott fiercely refutes that myth.

Evelyn was just a teenager when she first began suffering with the symptoms of endometriosis – a reproductive condition that affects one in ten women. For fifteen years, she endured constant, agonising pain. Where she was desperate for clarity and support from medical practitioners, she was instead met with cold dismissals of hysteria and irresponsible misdiagnoses. Her pain left her completely isolated – until sharing her story revealed to her that countless other women were suffering the same fate.

A Bloody Scandal is a personal and shocking account of this gynaecological neglect. Weaving her own experiences with those of women from all across the globe, Evelyn examines the medical, political and educational failures that are causing preventable harm to women with reproductive conditions everywhere. Unflinchingly honest, this book is both a forceful reckoning with broken systems around the world and an urgent call for empathy-led care. Above all, it is a bold, compassionate show of solidarity with the women whose bodies are still being failed today.

Publisher Review

‘A powerful and revelatory call-to-arms for compassionate and empathetic health care for all women. Evelyn Scott is an informed and passionate advocate for those affected by medical neglect and diagnostic inequity, and A Bloody Scandal is a change-making book; moving, furious and full of hope’ Elinor Cleghorn, author of Unwell Women ‘Superbly written’ Dr. Louise Newson, #1 Sunday Times Bestselling author of The Power of Hormones ‘A Bloody Scandal is an empathetic, thoughtfully researched book that will validate and empower those who know the pain it dissects, and be an invigorating call to action for those who don’t. Evelyn’s deeply personal story has global impact’ Abby Norman, author of Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain ‘A Bloody Scandal is an unsettlingly apt title for this harrowing record of the ways women are failed by healthcare. With heroic effort, Evelyn Scott has synthesized an enormous amount of information and examines it with a clear eye so we can see the whole picture, one that calls us to immediate action’ Karen Havelin, author of Please Read This Leaflet Carefully