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Author Scully, Diana.

Title Men who control women's health : the miseducation of obstetrician-gynecologists / Diana Scully
Edition Reissue
Published New York : Teachers College Press, 1994

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Description xxvii, 275 pages ; 23 cm
Series Athene series
Athene series.
Contents I. The Problem. American Health Un-Care. Who's in Control? Are Women the Sicker Sex? Sexism in Medicine -- II. "Baby Catchers and Uterus Snatchers" Cultural Customs and Childbirth. Nineteenth-Century Men-Midwives. Modern Obstetrical Intervention. Nineteenth-Century Pelvic Surgery. J. Marion Sims, "The Father of Gynecology" Female Castration - The Ovariectomy. The Clitoridectomy, a Cure for Masturbators. Twentieth Century: Primary Care Physician or Super-specialist? -- III. The Hospital Setting. Institution and Patients. Department and Staff. The Residency Programs. The Residents. "The Happy Specialty" "Ego Trip" Emphasis on Life - Avoidance of Death. Control over Women. Would Women Be Better Obstetrician-Gynecologists Than Men? -- IV. The Surgical Mentality. Skills Emphasized in Training. What an Obstetrician-Gynecologist Is Trained to Do. What a Woman's Doctor Is Not Taught. Learning Not to Care. Women as "Teaching Material" Hysterectomy - A Case in Point
V. Learning to Be a Surgeon. "Practicing" Medicine. Mastery of Skills. Developing Confidence. Aggressive vs. Conservative - Two Approaches to Surgery -- VI. Negotiating to Do Surgery. Getting Cases Turned. Manipulating Surgical Assignments. Obtaining Approval for Surgery. Finding "Material" Selling the Hysterectomy. Avoiding Work -- VII. Strategies for Change. Unnecessary Surgery: Individual or Professional Deviance? Health Care and the Poor. Controls on Physician Behavior. Strategies for Reducing Unnecessary Surgery. Health Care: A Right or Privilege? A National Health Service. The Women's Health Movement. Closing the Gap in Women's Health Knowledge. Health Politics. Individual Solutions to Collective Problems: Protect Yourself and Work Together
Notes "Originally published in 1980 by Houghton Mifflin Company"--T.p. verso
"Reissue with a new introduction."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Generative organs, Female -- Surgery -- United States.
Gynecology -- Study and teaching (Graduate) -- United States.
Gynecology -- United States.
Obstetrics -- Study and teaching (Graduate) -- United States.
Obstetrics -- United States.
Sexism in medicine -- United States.
Surgery, Unnecessary -- United States.
SUBJECT United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
LC no. 93045686
ISBN 0807762733 (acid-free paper)
9780807762738