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Block, Jennifer.
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Women's health services -- United States.
Women -- Health and hygiene -- United States.
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Block, Jennifer.
Women's health services -- United States.
Women -- Health and hygiene -- United States.
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Everything
below
the
waist
:
why
health
care
needs
a
feminist
revolution
/ Jennifer Block.
by
Block, Jennifer.
St. Martin's Press, 2019.
Call #:
613.04244 B651e
Subjects
Women's
health
services -- United States.
Women --
Health
and hygiene -- United States.
ISBN:
9781250110053 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
x, 324 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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