Women and the Health Care Industry: An Unhealthy Relationship?

Foster (social policy, U. of Manchester) charges that women are being misled and exploited by the mainstream medical industry, which is designed primarily for the benefit of health care providers, and the manufacturers of prescription drugs and high-tech medical equipment. Not only do specific medical interventions threaten women's physical, psychological, and emotional well-being, she says, but the medicalization of women's health disempowers them as a group. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.