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Edited by Dawn P. Lemcke, Julie Pattison, Lorna A. Marshall, and Deborah S. Cowley. 583 pp. Norwalk, Conn., Appleton & Lange, 1995. $34.95. ISBN 0-8385-9813-7.
Edited by Vicki L. Selzter and Warren H. Pearse. 825 pp., illustrated. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1995. $65. ISBN 0-07056225-3.

Why should anyone buy a textbook about women's health? Many general internists have at least one textbook of ambulatory medicine on their bookshelves. Before deciding whether to purchase a separate book on women's health, these physicians must first decide whether they "buy" the field of women's health at all. As one of my generalist colleagues once said to me, "If you're doing women's health, what am I doing?" Her puzzlement over the proliferation of women's health centers is shared by many physicians.

If some physicians are skeptical about the need for women's health as a discipline, many of the women . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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