商品簡介
In the first section, Null, a Ph.D. in nutrition and author of dozens of books on health and natural healing, deals with a variety of women's health issues, their causes, symptoms, and alternative treatment solutions. Arranged alphabetically, entries are not limited to ailments, but also include issues such as birth control, pregnancy, and sexual and physical abuse. In the second section, Seaman, a founder of the National Women's Health Network, and author of several books on women and medicine, presents approximately 200 articles and interviews on women's health and empowerment, including excerpts from Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sojourner Truth, and contributions by Naomi Wolf, Gloria Steinem, and Susan Brownmiller. These essays cover everything from orgasms, to leg shaving, to breast cancer activism. This volume costs $49.95 until 12/31/2000. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Bestselling health and nutrition author Gary Null is one of America's most popular health and fitness writers. Dr. Null has a Ph.D. in Nutrition and he is the author of dozens of books and hundreds of medical articles. He is also the host of a popular daily radio show on VoiceAmerica. Barbara Seaman has been on the forefront of the women's health movement since the publication of her groundbreaking Doctor's Case Against the Pill in 1969. It exposed the risks of prescribing untested birth control pills to women and was the basis of Senate hearings resulting in the FDA to require informational inserts with oral contraceptives and other medicines.
