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A transcendent account of the effects of breast cancer.

Women patients --- Breast --- Female patients --- Patients --- Breasts --- Chest --- Large-breasted women --- Poetry. --- Cancer

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For over two years Alexandra Todd audiotaped and observed communications between gynecologists and women patients in a private practitioner's office and in a community clinic. Intimate Adversaries provides a close-up view of what takes place in medical interactions centered on reproductive care.

Interpersonal conflict. --- Physician and patient. --- Women patients --- Psychology. --- Caregiving. --- Health. --- Medicine.

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"A trailblazing conversation-starting history of women's health-from Ancient Greece to hormones and autoimmune diseases--brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative"-- Cleghorn was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a possible pregnancy. She turned to history for answers, and found an enraging legacy of suffering, mystification, and misdiagnosis. Here she traces the almost unbelievable history of how medicine has failed women by treating their bodies as alien and other, often to perilous effect. In exploring the relationship between women, illness, and medicine, she shows how being unwell has become normalized in society and culture, and that women have long been distrusted as reliable narrators of their own bodies and pain. -- adapted from jacket

Women --- Women --- Women patients --- Diagnostic errors --- Women's Health --- Diagnostic Errors --- Health and hygiene --- Health and hygiene --- History --- history

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Here, five authors use multidisciplinary approaches to examine verbal birthing narratives. The work argues that women should become active participants in their own birthing experiences, and that caregiving systems should change to accomodate women during birth.Drawing on a richly diverse collection of more than 130 interviews, this book brings to life the nagging question of just who is having this baby, anyway? Though the birthing process is framed and handled differently from country to country, even from region to region, the prevailing norm situates birth in hospitals, managed by doctors and nurses who rely on a variety of technologies to assist them. Medical institutions, rather than women, control the birth experience. In this book five authors use multidisciplinary approaches to examine verbal birthing narratives. A rhetorician investigates power relations among all people involved in the birthing process. A historian exposes the history of how women's bodies have been viewed and scripted according to the logic of an assembly line. In its conclusion, this work argues that women should become active participants in their own birthing experiences, and that care-giving systems should change to accommodate women during birth.

Childbirth in literature --- Childbirth --- Childbirth --- Midwifery --- Women patients --- Women's rights --- Labor, Obstetric --- Cross-cultural studies --- History --- History --- Civil rights --- psychology

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Women --- Women patients --- Sexism in medicine --- Physician and patient --- Femmes --- Patientes --- Sexisme dans la médecine --- Relations médecin-patient --- Health and hygiene --- History. --- Santé et hygiène --- Histoire