Women's pain has historically been dismissed, minimised, or simply not believed. In The Stitch-Up, Emma Szewczak investigates the systemic failures - historical, institutional and cultural - that have left women under-researched, under-treated and under-heard in our healthcare system.
This is a book that asks hard questions and demands serious answers. In this frank and necessary conversation, Emma discusses the evidence, with Women's Prize longlistee, Grace Spence-Green, about the personal stories, and the structural changes that are urgently needed. An essential event for anyone who cares about women's health - which should be everyone.
 
Format: Conversation & Q&A
Themes: Non-Fiction, Adults, LGBTQ+, Health & Wellbeing
 
Emma Szewczak Books: The Stitch-Up, The Offset
Emma Szewczak is a writer based in Cambridge. Her latest book, The Stitch-Up: How Medical Misogyny Harms Us All, was co-written with Dr Andrzej Harris. Emma details her own and others’ experiences of medical gaslighting, violence and harm, and argues that being female should never be a death sentence.
 
Grace Spence-Green Books: To Exist As I Am
Grace Spence Green is a junior doctor working to challenge the narratives surrounding disability, medicine and identity. In 2018, aged 22 and a 4th year medical student, she sustained a spinal cord injury and is now a full-time wheelchair user. She is passionate about medicine, advocacy for the disabled community and challenging ableism, the stigma surrounding disability and inaccessible spaces.
She would love to see better and much more inclusive representation for disabled people in all walks of life and particularly in medicine and the media.