Focuses on the patient by discussing who might benefit from each procedure and how she might be affected by it. Random House, 1995. Describes the social climate that led to and surrounded the development of the Pill and its sequellae, beginning in the early part of the twentieth century through the present time. The book covers the people, events and scientific discoveries involved in an historical yet fascinating way. Short essays by such noted authors as Gloria Steinem, Anna Quindlen, Barbara Ehrenreich and Jane Brody, among others.
Essays discuss examples of bias against and mistreatment of women in healthcare.
Rather, she shows that women have been partners in the process of medicalization because they in some ways benefited from the definition of and attempts to treat these processes medically.