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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 The Property Of A Patriarchal Scientific Establishment That Disregarded And Neglected Them. In Many Ways, This Is Still The Case For Women Who Need To Obtain Information Crucial To Their Health. Is The Modern Medical Community Fulfilling Their Long-neglected Needs? Are Their Health Problems Taken Seriously? What Would They Like To Change About This System? My Body: Women Speak Out About Their Health Care Is A Provocative Response To These Questions As Well As An Acute Examination Of The Tenuous Role Of Women Within Today's Health Care System. Ms. Marion Crook, An Esteemed Health Writer/researcher And Community Health Care Nurse, Presents Compelling Interviews With Women From Various Ethnic And Socioeconomic Backgrounds In The United States A

Author

Marion Crook

Publisher

Plenum Press; Insight Books, Plenum Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780306449437

Subjects

Medical, Health & Fitness, Medicine