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A Terrible Strength: The Hidden Crisis of the Black Womb and Your Survival Guide to Healing

A Terrible Strength: The Hidden Crisis of the Black Womb and Your Survival Guide to Healing

Doll, Kemi, MD Mscr

Hardcover

Women's HealthBlack American Studies

Publisher Price: $28.99

ISBN10: 0593977475
ISBN13: 9780593977477
Publisher: Harmony
Published: May 5 2026
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Black women are facing a systemic gynecological health crisis. This book gives them the tools needed to unlearn the medical normalization of their suffering and offers a path forward to healing--by a foremost physician, surgeon, researcher, and gynecological cancer expert.

When Dr. Kemi Doll first began training to be a gynecologic cancer surgeon, she quickly noticed that the level of care being offered to women was rarely equal. She started to ask herself: Whose pain was believed? Who was high maintenance vs. angry and non-compliant? Who died? White women's pain was doubted, but Black women's pain was often outright denied. And the locus of this crisis was the womb. Day by day, fibroids, bleeding, inflammation, and cancer struck Black women the hardest, yet the medical field cared very little about their fate. When student physicians would explicitly bring up these alarming disparities, Dr. Doll's teachers would reply: Black women just don't do well with this, followed by, We don't really know why.

Since then, Dr. Doll has made it her goal to give Black women the tools they need to unlearn what she calls womb suffering. For all women navigating gynecologic care, and the medical professionals who care for them, this comprehensive, authoritative book of science-backed information and lived experience covers:

- The mechanisms behind the four primary conditions that affect the womb--often with fatal consequences--including Endometriosis, Fibroids, Heavy Bleeding, and Endometrial cancer.

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