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Taking our pulse : the health of America's women by Litt M.D., Iris F. is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Taking our pulse : the health of America's women about?

Taking Our Pulse is a book about women's health: what it is, why it is the way it is, and what needs to be done to improve it. It differs from many other books about the health of women by: integrating up-to-date medical research with practical information for use in daily lives; offering a way of looking at health issues affecting women that accentuates their living better rather than just longer; emphasizing a developmental approach by examining health issues at different stages of the life cycle; and using a lucid, almost conversational, style of presentation that makes complex medical conditions and procedures readily intelligible to lay readers. Furthermore, it is written by a woman who is a physician, an educator of future physicians, a medical researcher, and a student of feminism. Because the field of medicine has been traditionally dominated and controlled by men, male constructs have largely defined the causes and remedies of women's health problems. A host of myths has accumulated about women's healththe beliefs that most women's health problems are related to their reproductive function and that women tend to have more emotional diseases than physical ones. Even today,

Author

Litt M.D., Iris F.

Publisher

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804731379

Subjects

Social Science, Medical, Medicine