In 1948, the Constitution of the World Health Organization
declared, "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and
social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity." Yet this idea was not predominant in the United States
immediately after World War II, especially when it came to women's
reproductive health. Both legal and medical institutions-and the
male legislators and physicians who populated those
institutions-reinforced women's second class social status and
restricted their ability to make their own choices about
reproductive health care. In More Than Medicine, Jennifer Nelson
reveals how feminists of the '60s and '70s applied the lessons of
the new left and civil rights movements to generate a women's
health movement. The new movement shifted from the struggle to
revolutionize health care to the focus of ending sex discrimination
and gender stereotypes perpetuated in mainstream medical contexts.
Moving from the campaign for legal abortion to the creation of
community clinics and feminist health centers, Nelson illustrates
how these activists revolutionized health care by associating it
with the changing social landscape in which women had power to
control their own life choices. More Than Medicine poignantly
reveals how social justice activists in the United States gradually
transformed the meaning of health care, pairing traditional notions
of medicine with less conventional ideas of "healthy" social and
political environments.
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