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More Than Medicine : a History of the Feminist Women's Health Movement by Jennifer Nelson, Jennifer Nelson is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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"In 1948, the Constitution of the World Health Organization declared, "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." Yet this idea was not predominant in the United States immediately after World War II, especially when it came to women's reproductive health. Both legal and medical institutions--and the male legislators and physicians who populated those institutions--reinforced women's second class social status and restricted their ability to make their own choices about reproductive health care. In More Than Medicine, Jennifer Nelson reveals how feminists of the '60s and '70s applied the lessons of the new left and civil rights movements to generate a women's health movement. The new movement shifted from the struggle to revolutionize health care to the focus of ending sex discrimination and gender stereotypes perpetuated in mainstream medical contexts. Moving from the campaign for legal abortion to the creation of community clinics and feminist health centers, Nelson illustrates how these activists revolutionized health care by associating it with the changing social landscape in which women had power t

Who reads More Than Medicine : a History of the Feminist Women's Health Movement?

Author

Jennifer Nelson, Jennifer Nelson

Publisher

NYU Press; New York University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814762776

Category

history

Subjects

Medical, Fiction, History

Rating

3.54 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14