No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics and Health Care; Women and Doctors: A Physician's Explosive Account of Women's Medical Treatment -- And Mistreatment -- In America Today and What You Can Do about It

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Volume 328:360-361		February 4, 1993		Number 5

No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics and Health Care
Women and Doctors: A Physician's Explosive Account of Women's Medical Treatment -- And Mistreatment -- In America Today and What You Can Do about It

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By Susan Sherwin. 286 pp. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1992. $39.95. ISBN 0-87722-889-2.
By John M. Smith. 241 pp. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1992. $20.95. ISBN 1-56023-005-3.

These two provocative books look at women, men, and their rolesand relations in our health care system. The message in bothcases is that the practice of medicine and our thinking aboutmedicine and ethics need revision from a feminist perspective.Stylistically, however, the two accounts differ dramatically,illustrating how the medium can indeed become the message, sometimesin ways that the author never intended.

The title of her book notwithstanding, Susan Sherwin providesa patient, minimally strident, yet fully formed feminist critiqueof medical ethics and a creative exposition of the improvementspossible within a feminist ethics of . . . [Full Text of this Article]