In Her Own Right The Institute of Medicine's Guide to Women's Health Issues (1997) / Chapter Skim
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No one need now sustain large numbers of closely spaced, undesired pregnancies or ransack her own body for the nutrients to feed an inexorably growing brood. American women who enjoy normal health and take reasonable care of it can now 209
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A badly distorted health care system denies simple preventive care to countless people, but meanwhile almost indiscriminately provides vastly expensive therapies to repair predictable disasters. We transplant bone marrow in the terminal stages of breast cancer but bar the modestly priced mammograms that could have caught the disease early.
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And the life demands and experiences that women encounter will continue to shape their responses. As our nation's consciousness of women's health issues continues to rise, as women themselves take greater responsibility for their wellbeing and make greater demands on society for redress, and as more and more women gain positions of influence in the health professions, our health care system and the research enterprise that underlies it may respond increasingly effectively to these realities of female life.
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In the quarter century that I knew her, she never once bestowed a gift without saying to the recipient, as I now wish for the reader, "May you use it in good health." NOTE 1. Forrest (1991)
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