PhotoASK ME ABOUT MY UTERUSA Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s PainBy Abby Norman272 pp. In the 1940s, in their quest to devise an objective pain scale, Cornell University researchers poked an increasingly hot metal rod into the hands of 13 women in the throes of childbirth. Few of us can express our aches and hurts accurately, particularly when we are in the thick of them. Women with the disorder have heavy, agonizing periods along with a litany of other symptoms depending on where the rogue cells lurk. If they congregate near the bladder, urinating hurts; near the sciatic nerve, pain can shoot down the legs; inside the lung (a rare event), breathing can be stifled.

Source: New York Times March 19, 2018 19:55 UTC