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"I want to stay in charge of my health. I want to make the decisions." This is the overwhelming sentiment of all women who are looking for ways to find vital information about their health care choices. In other times and cultures, women were the healers and doctors of their communities, exchanging information and building on their knowledge. During the Middle Ages, however, much of the wisdom and health information that women had acquired became...
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"For as long as medicine has been a practice, women's bodies have been treated like objects to be examined and ignored, idealized and sexualized, shamed, subjugated, mutilated, and dismissed. The notion that female bodies are flawed inversions of the male ideal lingers on, as do the pervasive societal stigmas and ignorance that shape women's health and relationships with their own bodies. The author draws back the curtain on the collective medical...
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For the first time, in one volume of provocative essays, women speak out about their experiences with the American health-care system. From victims to victors, their reflections in Misdiagnosis: Woman As A Disease serve as an inspirational clarion call to all women who have been on the short end of American medicine. It is also a wake-up call to providers and institutions of medicine who, for more than a century, have treated women with arrogance...
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Relevant issues and concerns, as well as health problems of women from adolescence to mature years are covered. Physiological problems such as cancer, osteoporosis, infertilty and hypertension receive attention. Special chapters address health promotion and prevention, cultural diversity and social issues and provide information on the health status of women.
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