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"This unique anthology fills a void in the literature of public health policy. It provides a prism for understanding how women's well being is affected by hidden assumptions about color, class, and culture. Destined to become a classic, it is an indispensable guide in distinguishing science from pseudo-science, myth and mirage from medical fact."--Patricia Williams, Professor of Law, Columbia University
List of contents
Editor's Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: The Making and Interpretation of Science 1
1. Man-Made Medicine and Women's Health: The Biopolitics of Sex/Gender and Race/Ethnicity / Nancy Krieger and Elizabeth Fee 15
2. Of Headlines and Hypotheses: The Role of Gender in Popular Press Coverage of Women's Health and Biology / Joan E. Bertin and laurie R. Beck 37
3. Reinventing Medical Research / Kay Dickersin and Lauren Schnaper, M.D. 57
Moving From the Periphery
4. The Women's Health Movement in the United States / Judy Norsigian 79
5. For Women's Health: Uncoupling Health Care Reform from Tort Reform / Joyce E. McConnell 99
6. Women, Girls, and the HIV Epidemic / Catherie Teare and Abigail English 123
7. Health Care Access for Immigrant Women / Janet M. Calvo 161
8. Cultivating Common Ground: Women with Disabilities / Carol J. Gill 183
9. Reforming the Provision of Mental Health Treatment / Susan Stefan 195
10. Abortion, Law ,and Public Health / Ann Scales with Wendy Chavkin, M.D. 219
11. Women Prisoners and Health Care: Locked Up and Locked Out / Ellen M. Barry 249
Notes on Contributors 273
Index 279
About the author
Kary L. Moss, ed.
Summary
Makes a statement about gender bias in the medical establishment and its pernicious effects on the well-being of women and the care they receive. This title examines 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.
