Outrageous Practices

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Author: Leslie Laurence

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780813524481

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Women's health is threatened by gender bias on three fronts: bias against women patients, bias against women doctors, health practitioners, and medical scientists, and bias against women as medical research subjects. Outrageous Practices, a highly acclaimed best-seller newly available in paperback, chronicles the history of a prejudiced health care establishment and shows how the current system remains captive to male-dominated medicine and research. The book examines how gender discrimination manifests itself in hospitals, physicians's and psychiatrists's offices, medical schools, research labs, government health-related agencies, and biomedical and pharmaceutical industries. KEY POINTS: o New paperback edition of a powerful book about gender bias in the medical establishment. o New preface by authors brings the issues up-to-date.

Outrageous Practices

Outrageous Practices PDF

Author: Leslie Laurence

Publisher:

Published: 1998-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780788159480

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Laurence and Weinhouse shine a penetrating light on the medical establishment and discover pervasive neglect, rampant gender bias, and systematized discrimination in women's health care -- an issue that has galvanized women in the nineties. They investigate the shocking anti-woman bias at medical schools and research facilities, and takes to task physicians' offices, where female patients are treated differently from their male counterparts. They eloquently demonstrate that sexist medicine is bad science -- and the demand for nonsexist treatment is nothing less than the demand for equitable treatment in research, education, and patient care.

Jainism

Jainism PDF

Author: Jeffery D. Long

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2013-03-22

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0857713922

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Jainism evokes images of monks wearing face-masks to protect insects and mico-organisms from being inhaled. Or of Jains sweeping the ground in front of them to ensure that living creatures are not inadvertently crushed: a practice of non-violence so radical as to defy easy comprehension. Yet for all its apparent exoticism, Jainism is still little understood in the West. What is this mysterious philosophy which originated in the 6th century BCE, whose absolute requirement is vegetarianism, and which now commands a following of four million adherents both in its native India and diaspora communities across the globe?In his welcome new treatment of the Jain religion, Long makes an ancient tradition fully intelligible to the modern reader. Plunging back more than two and a half millennia, to the plains of northern India and the life of a prince who - much like the Buddha - gave up a life of luxury to pursue enlightenment, Long traces the history of the Jain community from founding sage Mahavira to the present day. He explores asceticism, worship, the life of the Jain layperson, relations between Jainism and other Indic traditions, the Jain philosophy of relativity, and the implications of Jain ideals for the contemporary world. The book presents Jainism in a way that is authentic and engaging to specialists and non-specialists alike.

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