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Misdiagnosis : woman as a disease

Title

Misdiagnosis : woman as a disease / Karen M. Hicks, editor.

Format

Book

Published

Allentown, Pa. : People's Medical Society, ©1994.

Description

249 pages ; 25 cm

Other contributors

Hicks, Karen M., 1947- People's Medical Society (U.S.)

Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• If I Were Under Stress, I'd See Hershey's, Not an M.D. / Barbara Bach
• Research That Ignores Females Is No Bargain / Ellen Goodman
• Unequal Care: Does Male Medical Bias Give Women Short Shrift? / Susan Schwartz
• What Doctors Don't Know About Women / Robin Herman
• If Men Could Menstruate: A Political Fantasy / Gloria Steinem
• Man to Man at Georgetown: Tales Out of Medical School / Adriane Fugh-Berman
• Outside In / Roberta Berrien
• Medical Malepractice / Carolyn DeMarco
• A Doctor's Story / Marcy Olmsted
• Hot Flash / Katha Pollitt
• Mother and Child / Anna Quindlen
• Stamping Out a Dread Scourge / Barbara Ehrenreich
• Why Do Women Remake Their Bodies to Fit the Fashion? / Kate Dunn
• Why Women Are "Crazy," But Men Have "Problems" / Carol Tavris
• Get the Message?! / Elayne Clift
• Sick Chic / Barbara Ehrenreich
• Introduction to the Childbearing Section of The New Our Bodies, Ourselves / Jane Pincus, Judy Luce and Norma Swenson.

• Keepers of the Ceremony of Birth / Clarebeth Loprinzi Kassel
• The Violation / Laura Elliott
• Birth With Violence: Reflections On Cesarean Section and Beyond / Gina Ogden
• Mother As Martyr / Dorothy E. Roberts
• Tales From the Baby Factory / Ellen Hopkins
• Hysterectomy Still No Cure-All / Jane E. Brody
• Woman to Woman: What Women Don't
• and Do
• Tell Each Other About Hysterectomy / Genevieve Carminati
• Breast Cancer
• A DES Daughter's Story / Amanda Sherman
• Perspective on Breast Cancer: It's Not Just a Tragic Part of Life / Ruth Rosen
• The Boob Trap: Debunking Myths About Breast Cancer / Virginia M. Soffa
• Got to Get This Off My Chest / Matuschka
• Introduction to Confronting Cancer, Constructing Change / Sandra Butler
• African-American Women and HIV: Not Just Another Brick in the Wall / Dazon Dixon
• Why I Don't Feel So Good About Women's Medicine / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
• Dalkon Shield: Turning Victims Into Seekers of Justice / Karen M. Hicks.

• Norplant: The "Scarlet Letter" of Birth Control / June Adinah
• Confronting My Foot Doctor / Marsha Saxton
• My Heart Has Said a Word / Pat Taylor
• Integrating Biomedical and Feminist Perspectives On Women's Health / Alice J. Dan
• Take Charge of Your Life at Any Age / Erma Bombeck.

Summary

For the first time, in one volume of provocative essays, women speak out about their experiences with the American health-care system. From victims to victors, their reflections in Misdiagnosis: Woman As A Disease serve as an inspirational clarion call to all women who have been on the short end of American medicine. It is also a wake-up call to providers and institutions of medicine who, for more than a century, have treated women with arrogance and disrespect. Not since Our Bodies, Ourselves has a book about women's health been so powerful. Never before has any publication explored so many diverse and pertinent themes - all through the eyes, and in the words, of women. Sometimes poignant but always provocative, Misdiagnosis: Woman As A Disease is a collection of essays and short works on the most important topics related to the woman's health experience. Women voice their reactions to the medicalization of childbirth, the "reshaping" of women by plastic surgery, the obvious flaws in physician training that lead to indifference and trivialization of women's health concerns ... and so much more. In his preface to Misdiagnosis: Woman As A Disease, People's Medical Society President Charles B. Inlander indicts the medical system for decades of medical scandals perpetrated on women: DES, thalidomide, the Dalkon Shield, unnecessary hysterectomies, the sky-high cesarean section rate, silicone breast implants - all resulting in a long trail of victims. "American medicine," he charges, "has made the word 'woman' a medical diagnosis." For decades women have written of their experiences in the health-care system. But never have their thoughts and ideas been collected in one volume. Misdiagnosis: Woman As A Disease is that volume.

Subject headings

Women--Health and hygiene--Sociological aspects. Women's health services--Political aspects. Feminism.

Kinsey subjects

Status of women. Women medical advice. Medical profession sex education. Medicine.

ISBN

1882606108 9781882606108