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Book Reviews : Intimate Adversaries: Cultural Conflict Between Doctors and Women Patients. By Alexandra Dundas Dodd. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989, 152 pp. $16.95 (paperback). Women's Health Perspectives: An Annual Review. Edited by Carol J. Lappa and Connie Miller. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1988, 218 pp., $14.95 (paperback

Book Reviews : Intimate Adversaries: Cultural Conflict Between Doctors and Women Patients. By... BOOK REVIEWS Intimate Adversaries: Cultural Between Doctors and Conflict Women Patients. Alexandra Dundas Dodd. Univer- By Philadelphia: of 152 $16.95 Press, 1989, sity Pennsylvania pp. (paperback). Health An Annual Women’s Review. Edited Carol J. Perspectives: by and Connie Miller. AZ: 218 Phoenix, Press, 1988, Lappa Oryx pp., $14.95 (paperback). The cultural of our have a direct on the underpinnings society impact health care of the that health care is women, challenging concept neutral. Both volumes considerable data in this re- gender yield the cultural about former, gard, by describing society’s assumptions its economic and science as a and the women, structure, worldview, health care with women latter, by describing particular practices today. the reader with a combination of Intimate Adversaries provides and verbatim between literary quotations, dialogues physicians women and historical and data that patients, pertinent philosophical evoke both and at how women and male anger surprise patients out the classic and a Cartesian physicians play power struggle sepa- ration of mind and This Cartesian schism is in body replicated phy- sicians’ offices when women consult about their patients physicians this medicalized functions to be (by time) reproductive only greeted with the anat- that themselves from their expectation they http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

Book Reviews : Intimate Adversaries: Cultural Conflict Between Doctors and Women Patients. By Alexandra Dundas Dodd. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989, 152 pp. $16.95 (paperback). Women's Health Perspectives: An Annual Review. Edited by Carol J. Lappa and Connie Miller. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1988, 218 pp., $14.95 (paperback

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BOOK REVIEWS Intimate Adversaries: Cultural Between Doctors and Conflict Women Patients. Alexandra Dundas Dodd. Univer- By Philadelphia: of 152 $16.95 Press, 1989, sity Pennsylvania pp. (paperback). Health An Annual Women’s Review. Edited Carol J. Perspectives: by and Connie Miller. AZ: 218 Phoenix, Press, 1988, Lappa Oryx pp., $14.95 (paperback). The cultural of our have a direct on the underpinnings society impact health care of the that health care is women, challenging concept neutral. Both volumes considerable data in this re- gender yield the cultural about former, gard, by describing society’s assumptions its economic and science as a and the women, structure, worldview, health care with women latter, by describing particular practices today. the reader with a combination of Intimate Adversaries provides and verbatim between literary quotations, dialogues physicians women and historical and data that patients, pertinent philosophical evoke both and at how women and male anger surprise patients out the classic and a Cartesian physicians play power struggle sepa- ration of mind and This Cartesian schism is in body replicated phy- sicians’ offices when women consult about their patients physicians this medicalized functions to be (by time) reproductive only greeted with the anat- that themselves from their expectation they

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Published: Dec 1, 1990

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