Having so long considered women to be naturally weak, sick and impaired—in the nineteenth century, some upper-middle-class women were regularly known as chronic invalids and, as such, were enjoined to remain in bed, until they went crazy with boredom—the healthcare system now seems to have changed its mind. These days, it suspects all women’s ailments of being “psychosomatic.” In short, women have gone from being “physically sick” to being “mentally ill.”
