"Taking Our Pulse" is a book about women's health: what it is, why
it is the way it is, and what needs to be done to improve it. It
differs from many other books about the health of women by:
integrating up-to-date medical research with practical information
for use in daily lives; offering a way of looking at health issues
affecting women that accentuates their living better rather than
just longer; emphasizing a developmental approach by examining
health issues at different stages of the life cycle; and using a
lucid, almost conversational, style of presentation that makes
complex medical conditions and procedures readily intelligible to
lay readers. Furthermore, it is written by a woman who is a
physician, an educator of future physicians, a medical researcher,
and a student of feminism.
Because the field of medicine has been traditionally dominated and
controlled by men, male constructs have largely defined the causes
and remedies of women's health problems. A host of myths has
accumulated about women's health--the beliefs that most women's
health problems are related to their reproductive function and that
women tend to have more emotional diseases than physical ones. Even
today, such simplistic and medically unsound views persist and are
reflected in the amount of insufficient research conducted on the
specific health needs of women. One of the major aims of this book
is to expose these myths, in the process re-educating not only
physicians but women themselves, who have been socialized to accept
them unquestioningly.
After four chapters that deal with life-span differences in women's
health (childhood and adolescence, early adulthood, the
perimenopausal years, and the older years), the book considers the
following topics: sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy and its
prevention, mental health, substance abuse, violence (including
sexual and child abuse, rape, domestic violence, and elder abuse),
nutrition, medical care, women as doctors, and choosing the right
physician.
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