Outrageous Practices: How Gender Bias Threatens Women's Health

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Rutgers University Press, 1997 - Health & Fitness - 434 pages

Women's health is threatened by gender bias on three fronts: bias against women patients, bias against women doctors, health practitioners, and medical scientists, and bias against women as medical research subjects. Outrageous Practices, a highly acclaimed best-seller newly available in paperback, chronicles the history of a prejudiced health care establishment and shows how the current system remains captive to male-dominated medicine and research. The book examines how gender discrimination manifests itself in hospitals, physicians's and psychiatrists's offices, medical schools, research labs, government health-related agencies, and biomedical and pharmaceutical industries.

KEY POINTS:

o New paperback edition of a powerful book about gender bias in the medical establishment.

o New preface by authors brings the issues up-to-date.

 

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Contents

Introduction
3
GENDER BIAS
9
HEALING THE SYSTEM 293
10
The Deadly Difference
85
Malignant Neglect
111
Women Are Not Immune
139
The Unkindest Cut
166
Fertile Ground for Bias
193
The Medicalization
216
Misunderstanding
249
A Cruel Double Standard
264
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Bibliographic information

TitleOutrageous Practices: How Gender Bias Threatens Women's Health
AuthorsLeslie Laurence, Beth Weinhouse
PublisherRutgers University Press, 1997
ISBN0813524482, 9780813524481
Length434 pages
Subjects › 

Health & Fitness / Women's Health
Medical / General
Medical / Health Care Delivery
Social Science / Gender Studies
  
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