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This new focus encompasses such controversial issues as:
-- Managing "managed care" and the insurance industry
-- Questioning breast cancer treatment options
-- Recent scientific developments in contraception and reproductive technology, including drug-induced abortions
-- Violence as a women's public health issue
-- Preventing and living with HIV/AIDS
-- The impact of racism on sexuality
-- Chiropractic, herbal, and other alternative/complementary therapies, including natural approaches to menopause
-- Poverty and racism as major determinants of women's health.
The New Our Bodies, Ourselves
by Boston Women's Health Book CollectiveEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-03-01
Publisher(s): Touchstone Books
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Summary
Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century is the first major revision of this classic since 1984 and reflects the major changes that have occurred in every area of women's health. It is still the definitive consumer health reference of all women.
Table of Contents
| Preface to the 25th Anniversary Edition | p. 8 |
| Earlier Prefaces | p. 11 |
| Body Image | p. 23 |
| Food | p. 30 |
| Alcohol, Mood-Altering Drugs and Smoking | p. 55 |
| Women in Motion | p. 65 |
| Health and Healing: Holistic Practices and Systems | p. 79 |
| Psychotherapy | p. 100 |
| Environmental and Occupational Health | p. 105 |
| Violence Against Women | p. 131 |
| Working Toward Mutuality: Our Relationships with Men | p. 157 |
| Loving Women: Lesbian Life and Relationships | p. 177 |
| Sexuality | p. 204 |
| Anatomy and Physiology of Sexuality and Reproduction | p. 241 |
| Birth Control | p. 259 |
| Sexually Transmitted Diseases | p. 308 |
| AIDS, HIV Infection and Women | p. 327 |
| If You Think You Are Pregnant: Finding Out and Deciding What to Do | p. 343 |
| Abortion | p. 353 |
| New Reproductive Technologies | p. 386 |
| Pregnancy | p. 401 |
| Childbirth | p. 435 |
| Postpartum | p. 474 |
| Infertility and Pregnancy Loss | p. 499 |
| Women Growing Older | p. 515 |
| Some Common and Uncommon Health and Medical Problems | p. 561 |
| The Politics of Women and Medical Care | p. 651 |
| Organizing for Change: U.S.A. | p. 699 |
| Developing an International Awareness | p. 713 |
| Index | p. 733 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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