The Resource Everything below the waist : why health care needs a feminist revolution, Jennifer Block
Everything below the waist : why health care needs a feminist revolution, Jennifer Block
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The item Everything below the waist : why health care needs a feminist revolution, Jennifer Block represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Grosse Pointe Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- "American women visit more doctors, have more surgery, and fill more prescriptions than men. In Everything Below the Waist, Jennifer Block asks: Why is the life expectancy of women today declining relative to women in other high-income countries, and even relative to the generation before them? Block examines several staples of modern women's health care, from fertility technology to contraception to pelvic surgery to miscarriage treatment, and finds that while overdiagnosis and overtreatment persist in medicine writ large, they are particularly acute for women. One third of mothers give birth by major surgery; roughly half of women lose their uterus to hysterectomy. Feminism turned the world upside down, yet to a large extent the doctors' office has remained stuck in time. Block returns to the 1970s women's health movement to understand how in today's supposed age of empowerment, women's bodies are still so vulnerable to medical control--particularly their sex organs, and as result, their sex lives. In this urgent book, Block tells the stories of patients, clinicians, and reformers, uncovering history and science that could revolutionize the standard of care, and change the way women think about their health. Everything Below the Waist challenges all people to take back control of their bodies."--Amazon.com
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 324 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250110053
- Label
- Everything below the waist : why health care needs a feminist revolution
- Title
- Everything below the waist
- Title remainder
- why health care needs a feminist revolution
- Statement of responsibility
- Jennifer Block
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "American women visit more doctors, have more surgery, and fill more prescriptions than men. In Everything Below the Waist, Jennifer Block asks: Why is the life expectancy of women today declining relative to women in other high-income countries, and even relative to the generation before them? Block examines several staples of modern women's health care, from fertility technology to contraception to pelvic surgery to miscarriage treatment, and finds that while overdiagnosis and overtreatment persist in medicine writ large, they are particularly acute for women. One third of mothers give birth by major surgery; roughly half of women lose their uterus to hysterectomy. Feminism turned the world upside down, yet to a large extent the doctors' office has remained stuck in time. Block returns to the 1970s women's health movement to understand how in today's supposed age of empowerment, women's bodies are still so vulnerable to medical control--particularly their sex organs, and as result, their sex lives. In this urgent book, Block tells the stories of patients, clinicians, and reformers, uncovering history and science that could revolutionize the standard of care, and change the way women think about their health. Everything Below the Waist challenges all people to take back control of their bodies."--Amazon.com
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Block, Jennifer
- Dewey number
- 613/.04244
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women's health services
- Women
- Women
- Women's health services
- United States
- MEDICAL / Public Health
- Label
- Everything below the waist : why health care needs a feminist revolution, Jennifer Block
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control code
- on1048944643
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 324 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250110053
- Lccn
- 2019007959
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1048944643
- Label
- Everything below the waist : why health care needs a feminist revolution, Jennifer Block
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control code
- on1048944643
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 324 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250110053
- Lccn
- 2019007959
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1048944643
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