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1 online resource (55 min.) |
| Summary |
Program explores the issue of why there are so few women the healthcare professions and the ramifications of this on women's health. Host Barbara Barrow-Murray speaks with guests Sherry Weingart (Co-director of the Women's Community Heath Center), Mary Alice Lee (Director of Counseling and Referrals for Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts), Beverly Smith (an instructor on women's health at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and member of the Boston Chapter Committee to End Sterilization Abuse), and Christine Bond (Director of Family Planning, Harvard St. Neighborhood Health Center) about the impact of the increasing role of male physicians on women's healthcare, political issues (such as legislation and abortion) related to women's healthcare, sex and sexuality education, and whether or not sterilization is being forced deliberately on Third World women. Additional segments include a brief interview with musician Webster Lewis (Director of the Post Pop Space Rock Be Bop Gospel Tabernacle Orchestra and Chorus of Boston) conducted by Barrow-Murray in which Lewis talks about his new recording Touch My Love and his role in the 1978 Boston Disco Awards show (footage from Lewis' performance at the Disco Awards included) |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed March 02, 2016) |
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In English |
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Women in medicine.
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Women's health services -- Political aspects -- Massachusetts -- Boston
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Women's rights.
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Women in medicine.
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Women's health services -- Political aspects.
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Women's rights.
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Massachusetts -- Boston.
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| Genre/Form |
Panel discussions.
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Nonfiction television programs.
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Panel discussions.
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Press conferences.
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Panels.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Atwood, David, director
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Barrow-Murray, Barbara, producer, host
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WGBH Video (Firm), production company.
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