Subtitle: How Gender Bias Threatens Women's Health
Author: Leslie Laurence and Beth Weinhouse
Subject: General Interest/Health/Women's Studies
Paperback ISBN 0-8135-2448-2
Pages: 448 pp.

"An eye-opening look at medicine's treatment of women during the past two centuries."-San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle

"A valuable resource."-The Washington Post

"A 'must-read' for all women."-National Council on Women's Health

"Provides ammunition for a vigorous movement by women to demand equal health care."-USA Today

"Find a doctor who has read Outrageous Practices."-Houston Chronicle

"A thorough examination of how the medical establishment has treated women . . . Comprehensive analysis, well presented and well documented."-Kirkus Reviews

Women's health is threatened by gender bias on three fronts: bias against women patients, bias against women doctors, health practitioners, and medical scientists, and bias against women as medical research subjects. Outrageous Practices, a highly acclaimed best-seller newly available in paperback, chronicles the history of a prejudiced health care establishment and shows how the current system remains captive to male-dominated medicine and research. The book examines how gender discrimination manifests itself in hospitals, physicians's and psychiatrists's offices, medical schools, research labs, government health-related agencies, and biomedical and pharmaceutical industries.

Leslie Laurence and Beth Weinhouse are both medical journalists who write about women's health and health-care for magazines such as Glamour and Ladies' Home Journal. Laurence's syndicated column, "Her Health," appears in more than seventy-five newspapers nationwide. Weinhouse writes a column for Parenting magazine and is the author of The Healthy Traveler .

KEY POINTS:

o New paperback edition of a powerful book about gender bias in the medical establishment.

o New preface by authors brings the issues up-to-date.