BookBrowse Reviews Eve by Cat Bohannon

In Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, one of author Cat Bohannon's startling revelations is that more women die of heart attacks than men, even though women are not more biologically prone to heart attacks. The opposite is true: men are more likely to suffer heart attacks than women. However, the standard symptoms of a heart attack most of us know — pain shooting up the arm, crushing weight on the chest — are, as it turns out, the symptoms men experience. Women's heart attack symptoms, such as acid reflux and dizziness, have not been studied as thoroughly and are thus not widely known, resulting in more women dying of heart attacks because they do not recognize or report the signs.

Eve highlights how throughout the history of science and medicine, women's bodies have been neglected and frequently ignored, while men's bodies have been and ...