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OverviewWomen's health is threatened by gender bias on three fronts: bias against women patients, bias against women doctors, health practitioners, and medical scientists, and bias against women as medical research subjects. Outrageous Practices, a highly acclaimed best-seller newly available in paperback, chronicles the history of a prejudiced health care establishment and shows how the current system remains captive to male-dominated medicine and research. The book examines how gender discrimination manifests itself in hospitals, physicians's and psychiatrists's offices, medical schools, research labs, government health-related agencies, and biomedical and pharmaceutical industries. KEY POINTS: o New paperback edition of a powerful book about gender bias in the medical establishment. o New preface by authors brings the issues up-to-date. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Leslie Laurence , Beth WeinhousePublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9780813524481ISBN 10: 0813524482 Pages: 460 Publication Date: 01 June 1997 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition Acknowledgments Introduction PART I DIAGNOSIS: GENDER BIAS 1 A Brief History of Medicine: A Legacy of Ignorance 2 Science and Medicine: Where Are the Women Now? 3 The Research Gap PART II SECOND-CLASS PATIENTS 4 Women's Hearts: The Deadly Difference 5 Breast Cancer: Malignant Neglect 6 AIDS: Women Are Not Immune 7 Surgery: The Unkindest Cut 8 Reproductive Health: Fertile Ground for Bias 9 From Midlife to the Mature Years: The Medicalization of Aging 10 ""It's All in Your Head"": Misunderstanding Women's Complaints 11 Women's Mental Health: A Cruel Double Standard PART III HEALING THE SYSTEM 12 Drug Marketing: Selling Women Out 13 Women and the Law: Unhealthy Judgments 14 Women and Doctors: A Troubled Relationship 15 The Future of Women's Health Notes IndexReviews"Women can only hope that this carefully researched book will rapidly become a historical document, and that those who read it will exclaim, ""I can't believe this is the way it used to be!"" Current readers - women, and men who care about women in their lives - will come away armed with a healthy cynicism about medical practices and the real need to challenge, question, and explore decisions made by medical practitioners. -- Frances K. Conley, M.D. * Professor of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine * An eye-opening look at medicine's treatment of women during the past two centuries... Certain to enrage and educate. * San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle *" "An eye-opening look at medicine's treatment of women during the past two centuries... Certain to enrage and educate. -- ""San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle"" Women can only hope that this carefully researched book will rapidly become a historical document, and that those who read it will exclaim, ""I can't believe this is the way it used to be!"" Current readers - women, and men who care about women in their lives - will come away armed with a healthy cynicism about medical practices and the real need to challenge, question, and explore decisions made by medical practitioners. --Frances K. Conley, M.D. ""Professor of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine""" Author InformationLESLIE LAURENCE is a medical journalist who write about women's health and health-care for magazines such as Glamour and Ladies' Home Journal. Laurence's syndicated column, ""Her Health,"" appears in more than seventy-five newspapers nationwide. BETH WEINHOUSE is a medical journalist writes a column for Parenting magazine and is the author of The Healthy Traveler . Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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