Outrageous Practices
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Outrageous Practices by Leslie Laurence
Women'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.
Women can only hope that this carefully researched book will rapidly become a historical document, and that those who read it will exclaim, "I can't believe this is the way it used to be!"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 *
LESLIE 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 .
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9780813524481 |
| ISBN 10 | 0813524482 |
| Titel | Outrageous Practices |
| Autor | Leslie Laurence |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Rutgers University Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1997-06-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 460 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
| Hinweis | Nicht verfügbar |