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Forging a women's health research agenda : policy issues for the 1990s

Title
Forging a women's health research agenda : policy issues for the 1990s / edited by Jeri A. Sechzer, Anne Griffin, and Sheila M. Pfafflin.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : New York Academy of Sciences, 1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Sechzer, Jeri A., 1930-
  • Griffin, Anne.
  • Pfafflin, Sheila M.
  • New York Academy of Sciences.
Description
223 pages.
Series Statement
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 0077-8923 ; v. 736
Uniform Title
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 736.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Congress.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introductory Remarks / Mary E. Moller -- Women's Health and Paradigm Change / Jeri Altneu Sechzer, Anne Griffin and Sheila M. Pfafflin -- Sex and Gender Bias in Animal Research and in Clinical Studies of Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, and Depression / Jeri Altneu Sechzer, Vita Carulli Rabinowitz, Florence L. Denmark, Michael F. McGinn, Bruce M. Weeks and Carrie L. Wilkens -- Sex Biases in Risk Assessment / Harlee S. Strauss -- Occupational and Environmental Impacts on Reproductive Health / Howard M. Kipen and Carol Zuber -- Prenatal Treatment and Mothers' Rights: The Legal Framework, Policy Considerations, and Research Needs in Three Problem Areas / Nadine Taub -- Prenatal Care Policy Issues / Marta I. Baez -- "RU 486": A Luncheon Speech / Beverly Winikoff -- Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Lynn Borgatta -- Dissemination of HIV: How Serious Is It for Women, Medically and Psychologically? / Mary Ann Adler Cohen and Cesar A. Alfonso -- Breast Cancer in the United States / M. Margaret Kemeny.
  • Social and Psychological Aspects of Breast Cancer in African-American Women / Dionne R. Powell -- Gynecologic Cancer: Prevention and Screening Strategies for the 1990s / John P. Curtin -- Cardiovascular Disease in Women: What's Different? What's New? What's Unresolved? / Marianne J. Legato -- Osteoporosis: Statistics, Intervention, and Prevention / Theresa D. Galsworthy -- Women's Centers: A Model for Future Health Care / Penny Wise Budoff -- Keynote Address / Ruth W. Messinger -- Women and the Development of Drugs: Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man? / Jean L. Fourcroy -- Office of Research on Women's Health: National Institutes of Health and the Women's Health Agenda / Judith H. LaRosa -- Women's Health and the Articulation of Policy Preferences: Setting the Terms of Discussion / Anne Griffin -- Future Directions for Women's Health / Sheila M. Pfafflin.
ISBN
  • 0897668936 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0897668944 (paper : alk. paper)
LCCN
94042248
OCLC
  • 31707594
  • ocm31707594
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries