Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-346) and index.
Contents
Science and values -- Power and the clinical setting -- Poverty -- Violence against women -- Occupational health -- Cancer -- Women and body image -- Raging hormones -- Growing older -- Contraception and abortion -- The medicalization of chidbirth and the midwifery alternative -- Technology-assisted conception -- Fetal quality control -- Women as health care providers -- Health care activists -- Finding resources.