My body : women speak out about their health care /

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Author / Creator:Crook, Marion.
Imprint:New York : Insight Books, Plenum Press, c1995.
Description:xxviii, 304 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2413826
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ISBN:0306449439
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-291) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Women in the World of Health and Healing
  • 2. Women in Medicine a Historic View
  • 3. Different Problems at Different Times
  • 4. Walls around Us
  • 5. Walls around Information
  • 6. Why Doctors Don't Give Health Information
  • 7. Alternative Practitioners
  • 8. The Nature of Quacks
  • 9. What Women Want from Their Doctors
  • 10. What Women Want from Society
  • 11. The Cost of Health Information
  • 12. Healing in Different Cultures
  • 13. Finding Health Information
  • 14. The Ideal Health Information System
  • 15. Some Examples of Close-To-Ideal Centers
  • 16. What One Woman Can Do
  • 17. The Next Generation
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Resources
  • Bibliography
  • Index