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Outrageous Practices : The Alarming Truth about How Medicine Mistreats Women

by Laurence, Leslie ; Beth Weinhouse

First Edition (stated)

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Book desription: New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1994. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition (stated). A detailed study of health care for women, the authors contending that the medical establishment discriminates against women and provides them second-class treatrment, that women are given improper diagnoses, are assigned surgery when it isn't truly required, fewer transplants are going to women than men, unsafe medications dispensed to them, much more. Hardcover with dust jacket, contains notes, indexed, 434pp. A very nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free Brodart plastic protector.. ISBN: 0-449-90745-7. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Women, Gender Issues, Feminism, Sexism, Sex Discrimination, Medicine, Doctors, Health Care, Illness, HMOs, Nurses, Nursing, Hospitals.

  • Bookseller: JB Books US (US)
  • Bookseller Inventory #: 00006814
  • Edition: First Edition (stated)
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • ISBN 10: 0449907457
  • ISBN 13: 9780449907450
  • Publisher: Fawcett Columbine
  • Place: New York
  • Date published: 1994
  • Subjects: EDUCATION / General;

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