Everything Below the Waist challenges all people to take back control of their bodies. In Everything Below the Waist, Jennifer Block asks: Why is the life expectancy of women today declining. Jennifer Block - 'American women visit more doctors, have more surgery, and fill more prescriptions than men. In this urgent book, Block tells the stories of patients, clinicians, and reformers, uncovering history and science that could revolutionize the standard of care, and change the way women think about their health. Get this from a library Everything below the waist : why health care needs a feminist revolution. 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. She dives deeply into each topic, and her research often goes back decades as she strives to give readers an understanding of how practices have evolved. Block examines topics such as birth control, fertility/infertility, routine gynecological exams, and so much more. One third of mothers give birth by major surgery roughly half of women lose their uterus to hysterectomy. Everything Below the Waist is a thorough investigation of womens health care. 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. American women visit more doctors, have more surgery, and fill more prescriptions than men. For early chapters of Everything Below the Waist, she won a Whiting Creative. An eye-opening, investigative account of the dismal state of women's healthcare in the U.S. Jennifer Block is an independent journalist focused on women and health.

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