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Searching for Ourselves in a System Built Without Us
By Gayathri Delanerolle
What happens when the systems designed to care for us were never built with us in mind?
In this powerful and deeply personal book, Gayathri Delanerolle explores the hidden realities of medical menopause, endometriosis, miscarriage, infertility, hormonal health, and the emotional cost of living inside systems that too often dismiss women's pain. Drawing from lived experience, scientific insight, and a fierce commitment to women's health equity, this book challenges long-standing assumptions in medicine, research, and society. Part memoir, part manifesto, Searching for Ourselves in a System Built Without Us takes readers through the physical, psychological, and sociocultural realities of medical menopause and reproductive health inequality. From hot flushes and brain fog to fertility grief, workplace pressures, identity shifts, and systemic bias in healthcare, this book gives voice to experiences millions endure silently.
This is not simply a book about menopause. It is a book about power, survival, identity, and the urgent need to redesign women's healthcare.
Written with honesty, vulnerability, and scientific clarity, Gayathri Delanerolle combines personal storytelling with evidence-based reflection to reveal how women's bodies have historically been misunderstood, under-researched, and marginalised within clinical systems.
For anyone who has ever felt unheard in a clinic room, dismissed in pain, or forced to endure in silence - this book will feel like recognition.
Praised by early readers as:
- 'A remarkable book'
- 'Exquisitely written, unflinching and fiercely authentic'
- 'A framework for an equitable future.'
This book speaks not only to clinicians, researchers, policymakers, educators, and families. It is a call to listen differently, think differently, and build healthcare systems that finally see women fully.Searching for Ourselves in a System Built Without Us
By Gayathri Delanerolle
What happens when the systems designed to care for us were never built with us in mind?
In this powerful and deeply personal book, Gayathri Delanerolle explores the hidden realities of medical menopause, endometriosis, miscarriage, infertility, hormonal health, and the emotional cost of living inside systems that too often dismiss women's pain. Drawing from lived experience, scientific insight, and a fierce commitment to women's health equity, this book challenges long-standing assumptions in medicine, research, and society. Part memoir, part manifesto, Searching for Ourselves in a System Built Without Us takes readers through the physical, psychological, and sociocultural realities of medical menopause and reproductive health inequality. From hot flushes and brain fog to fertility grief, workplace pressures, identity shifts, and systemic bias in healthcare, this book gives voice to experiences millions endure silently.
This is not simply a book about menopause. It is a book about power, survival, identity, and the urgent need to redesign women's healthcare.
Written with honesty, vulnerability, and scientific clarity, Gayathri Delanerolle combines personal storytelling with evidence-based reflection to reveal how women's bodies have historically been misunderstood, under-researched, and marginalised within clinical systems.
For anyone who has ever felt unheard in a clinic room, dismissed in pain, or forced to endure in silence - this book will feel like recognition.
Praised by early readers as:
- 'A remarkable book'
- 'Exquisitely written, unflinching and fiercely authentic'
- 'A framework for an equitable future.'
This book speaks not only to clinicians, researchers, policymakers, educators, and families. It is a call to listen differently, think differently, and build healthcare systems that finally see women fully.
Details
Publisher - DEBM Press
Language - English
Perfect Bound
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By author
Gayathri Delanerolle
Published Date - 2026-05-20
ISBN - 9781837097425
Dimensions - 29.7 x 21 x 0.5 cm
Page Count - 80
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