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By Mary Briody Mahowald. 281 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1993. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-0506346-5.

"If we take a survey of ages and of countries, we shall find the women, almost -- without exception at all times and in all places, adored and oppressed. . . . Society, instead of alleviating their condition, is to them the source of new miseries." Thomas Paine said this in 1775, but the same could be said today. The bioethics movement has been slow to pay attention to women's oppression by the health care system, but an emerging literature written from a feminist perspective attempts to redress the situation. This book is among the best of that literature.

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