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020			_a125011005X _qhardcover
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100	1		_aBlock, Jennifer, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aEverything below the waist : _bwhy health care needs a feminist revolution / _cJennifer Block.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bSt. Martin's Press, _c2019.
264		4	_c©2019
300			_ax, 324 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [285]-314) and index.
505	0		_aThe problem with medicine as empowerment -- The church of the magic bullet -- Fertility insurance -- Pelvic tension -- GYN exceptionalism -- Birth trauma -- Women's health, inc. -- The case for home abortion -- The case for physiological justice.
520			_a"American women visit more doctors, have more surgery, and fill more prescriptions than men. In Everything Below the Waist, Jennifer Block asks: Why is the life expectancy of women today declining relative to women in other high-income countries, and even relative to the generation before them? Block examines several staples of modern women's health care, from fertility technology to contraception to pelvic surgery to miscarriage treatment, and finds that while overdiagnosis and overtreatment persist in medicine writ large, they are particularly acute for women. One third of mothers give birth by major surgery; roughly half of women lose their uterus to hysterectomy. Feminism turned the world upside down, yet to a large extent the doctors' office has remained stuck in time. Block returns to the 1970s women's health movement to understand how in today's supposed age of empowerment, women's bodies are still so vulnerable to medical control--particularly their sex organs, and as result, their sex lives. In this urgent book, Block tells the stories of patients, clinicians, and reformers, uncovering history and science that could revolutionize the standard of care, and change the way women think about their health. Everything Below the Waist challenges all people to take back control of their bodies"--Amazon.com.
520			_aAmerican women visit more doctors, have more surgery, and fill more prescriptions than men. Yet the life expectancy of women today is declining relative to women in other high-income countries. Block examines several staples of modern women's health care, from fertility technology to contraception to pelvic surgery to miscarriage treatment, and finds that while overdiagnosis and overtreatment persist in medicine writ large, they are particularly acute for women. -- adapted from jacket
650		0	_aWomen's health services _zUnited States.
650		0	_aWomen _xHealth and hygiene _zUnited States.
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