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Edited by Roxanne Louiselle Parrott and Celeste Michelle Condit. 445 pp. Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sage, 1996. $32.95. ISBN 0-7619-0057-8.

Messages about health abound in our society. Emanating from surgeons general to soap operas, they influence attitudes and actions regarding health care. This book offers the chance to consider some of these messages and their implications.

Evaluating Women's Health Messages examines the way in which the mass media have dealt with women's reproductive health in such areas as abortion, drug use during pregnancy, contraception, childbirth, smoking, and menstruation. Each topic is addressed in two chapters: the first summarizes biomedical or social-science findings (or both), and the second analyzes the presentation of the topic in the popular media.

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