Man-made Medicine

Women's Health, Public Policy, and Reform

Author: Kary L. Moss
ISBN: 9780822318163

If not for the reproductive functions of women, would there be anything called women's health care? A review of medical literature, practice, and policy in this country would suggest that the answer is no. Offering a startling view of the current state of health care for women in the United States and laying the foundation for a new, widely defined women's medicine, Man-Made Medicine makes an urgent statement about gender bias in the medical establishment and its pernicious effects on the well-being of women and the care they receive. These essays by physicians, lawyers, activists, and scholars present a rare interdisciplinary approach to a complex set of issues. Gender stereotyping and bias in the collection, analysis, and reporting of scientific data and in the ways health-related news is covered by the media are examined. The exclusion of women from the health care policy-making process and the effect such exclusion has on the determination of priorities among potential areas of res

Publisher: Duke University Press
Publish Date: 1996

Subjects: Health & Fitness / Women's Health, Medical / Health Care Delivery, Political Science / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Medicine)