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(Families and Health.) By Lucy M. Candib. 360 pp. New York, BasicBooks, 1995. $38. ISBN 0-465-02374-6.

Few physicians, whether male or female, identify themselves as feminists, and many perceive feminism as an angry critique of men that few of their patients support. If family physician Lucy M. Candib is correct, however, doctors should be feminists, and feminism might more correctly be described as requiring precisely the type of care that physicians aspire to give and their patients would like to receive.

Medicine and the Family: A Feminist Perspective offers no explicit definition of feminism. But throughout her book Candib implicitly defines the term by applying the critical perspective that is central to various versions of feminism . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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