Taking Our Pulse: The Health of America's WomenStanford University Press, 1997 - 349 pages 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 in being written directly from the author's experience as a woman who is a physician, an educator of future physicians, a medical researcher, and a feminist scholar. The book integrates up-to-date medical research with practical information for use in daily life. It offers a way of looking at health issues affecting women that accentuates their living better rather than just longer. It emphasizes a developmental approach, examining health issues at different stages of the life cycle. And it is written in a lucid, almost conversational, style that makes complex medical conditions and procedures readily intelligible to lay readers. |
Contents
PART ONE Lifespan Differences in Health Issues for Women | 5 |
Adolescence | 7 |
Early Adulthood | 27 |
The Perimenopausal Years | 53 |
The Older Years | 79 |
PART TWO Special Health Issues for Women | 99 |
Sexually Transmitted Diseases ΙΟΙ | 115 |
Pregnancy and Its Prevention | 125 |
PART THREE Health Policy Issues for Women | 247 |
Medical Care of Women in the United States | 249 |
Women as Doctors | 261 |
Choosing the Right Physician | 275 |
Research in Womens Health | 282 |
APPENDIXES | 293 |
A The Ten Leading Causes of Death in Women at Each Life Stage | 295 |
B Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment | 297 |
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