Man-Made Medicine
Subtitle: Women's Health, Public Policy, and Reform
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780822318163
Subjects: Health systems & services; Women's studies; Sexism in medicine; Health/Fitness; Politics / Current Events; USA; United States; General; Health Care Delivery; Women's Health - General; Gender Studies/Feminist Theory; MEDICINE& MEDICAL HUMANITIES; Public Policy; Government policy; Sex discrimination in medicine; Women's health services
First sentence: Glance at any collection of national health data for the United States-whether pertaining to health, disease, or the health care system-and several features stand out.
Description: If not for the reproductive function of women, would there be anything called women's health care? A review of medical literature, practice, and policy in this country would suggest that the answer is no.

Offering a startling view of the current state of health care for women in the United States and laying the foundation for a new, widely defined women's medicine, Man-Made Medicine makes an urgent statement about gender bias in the medical establishment and its pernicious effects on the well-being of women and the care they receive.