Everything Below the Waist by Jennifer Block

Block returns to the 1970s women's health movement to understand how in today's supposed age of empowerment, women's bodies are still so vulnerable to medical control-particularly their sex organs, and as result, their sex lives. Feminism turned the world upside down, yet to a large extent the doctors' office has remained stuck in time. One third of mothers give birth by major surgery roughly half of women lose their uterus to hysterectomy.

In Everything Below the Waist, Jennifer Block asks: Why is the life expectancy of women today declining relative to women in other high-income countries, and even relative to the generation before them? Block examines several staples of modern women's health care, from fertility technology to contraception to pelvic surgery to miscarriage treatment, and finds that while overdiagnosis and overtreatment persist in medicine writ large, they are particularly acute for women. ' -The Washington Post American women visit more doctors, have more surgery, and fill more prescriptions than men.

Book excerpt: Elle's 30 BEST BOOKS OF THE SUMMER 'A jaw-dropping investigation into the women's health industry.' -Shelf-Awareness 'A fascinating examination of the past and present of women's healthcare' -Delfina V Barbiero, USA TODAY 'A must-read for women, especially any woman who might ever need to see a doctor. This book was released on with total page 304 pages. Book Synopsis Everything Below the Waist by : Jennifer Blockĭownload or read book Everything Below the Waist written by Jennifer Block and published by St.

Everything Below the Waist by Jennifer Block