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Health, Medicine

On the Frontlines: A Counselor Must Address a Gauntlet of Lies, Mary Lou Greenberg, Spring 2010, abortion clinic, sex education

Opening New Horizons on Faith-Based Sex Education, Rev. Rebecca Turner, Spring 2010, Religion, Faith-Based education, sex, youth

With the Understanding of Ghandi, Aminatou Put Her Life on the Line, Barbara Becker Winter 2010, Gandhi, hunger strike, Western Sahara

Mahin Hassibi, Visionary Ideas, Thinking Out Loud, The Editors, Winter, 2010, Mahin Hassibi, psychiatry

Courage and Heroism Follow Devastation in Haiti, Mary Lou Greenberg, Winter 2010, Dr. Evans Crevecoeur, Haiti earthquake, Choices Women's Medical Center, Project Medishare

Convictions to Action: Lessons From Margaret Sanger, Gloria Feldt, Winter 2010, reproductive rights, birth control

Healthcare Compromise: Low-Income Women Get Bumped, Jen Nedeau, Fall 2009, Stupak- Pitts amendment, Hyde amendment, anti-abortion amendment

The Next Seven Generations: Reclaiming Healthy Sexuality for Native Youth, Jessica Yee, Fall 2009, Native Youth Sexual Health Network

Teens and Indian Health Service: Saving Both, Resa Crane Bizzaro, Fall 2009, Native Americans, mortality rates

Exclusive: Women of Color Push Boundaries on Reproductive Justice, Natalie Bell, Fall 2009, SisterSong, Stupak-Pitts amendment

The First of all Liberties: Making Health Care Meet All Women's Needs, Eesha Pandit, Fall 2009, reproductive justice

Trans Health Care Is a Life and Death Matter, Eleanor J. Bader, Summer 2009, transsexual health, Atlanta Feminist Women's Health Center, Southern Comfort Conference, Robert Eads

Activists Boost Female Health Empowerment, Eleanor J. Bader, Spring 2009, Our Bodies Ourselves, sex work

Taking a Stand on Hospitals, and Meaning It, Lois Uttley, Spring 2009, hospital mergers, end-of-life choices, reproductive health care

Taking Multimedia Action to Stop HIV-AIDS in Youth, Simon Fisher, Spring 2009 Cafe, AIDS epidemic, Beyondmedia Education

The Plight of Pregnancy, Maternal Mortality in Developing Nations, Sarah Hackley, childbirth deaths, UN Milennium goals, Gambia

Midwifery Reborn: Politicians Take Note, Lesley Cohen, Winter 2009 Café, childbirth, midwives, nurse-midwives

A Do-Over for Reproductive Justice, Gloria Feldt, Winter 2009 Café, abortion rights, Roe v. Wade, privacy rights, Griswold v. Connecticut

Our Architecture Ourselves, Leslie Kanes Weisman, Winter 2009, housing as a right, environmental sustainability, wellness center, utopian communities, human interdependence

Health Care ‘Reform’ Is Not Enough, Susan Yanow, Winter 2009, health insurance, Hyde Amendment, Medicaid, abortion restrictions, single-payer health insurance, Catholic hospitals, preventive care

San Francisco Health Care Clinic Makes Sex Workers at Home, Carol Stuart, Summer 2008, prostitution, sex work, COYOTE, Margo St. James

Plus ca Change, Merle Hoffman, May 2008, HIV, AIDS, gender inequality and HIV/AIDS

In the US, AIDS Spreads Rapid-Fire and Crosses the Gender Divide, Molly M. Ginty, May 2008, HIV, AIDS

Saving the Next Generation, Nancy Genova, May 2008, HIV, AIDS, women at risk, prenatal care

What is a Woman Worth? The Global Story is the Feminization of a Pandemic, Marcy Bloom, May 2008, HIV, AIDS, International AIDS Conference, misogyny

Break the Silence, End the Stigma, Mary Lou Greenberg, May 2008, HIV, AIDS, ACTUP, Silence = Death, amFAR, Susan Blumenthal

“I Don’t Want to Write the Book,” AIDS and Listening to Women, Sharon Walton, May 2008, Shanti Project, HIV

 “In the Continuum” Tells Women’s Missing HIV Stories, Alexis Greene, May 2008, HIV and theater

Bad Thoughts, right-wing on HIV/AIDS, May 2008

No Place Left to Bury the Dead, Denial, Despair and Hope in the African AIDS Pandemic by Nicole Itano reviewed by Eleanor Bader, May 2008, AIDS, Africa

Once The Silence Has Been Broken, Mehret Mandefro, May 2008, HIV, AIDS

Women with AIDS, Off the Radar Screen, Janine Avril, May 2008

Media Missteps + Misogyny = Death for Women, Mary Lou Greenberg, May 2008

The Down Low Effect, Natalie Bell, May 2008, closeted bisexual men

Time to Rethink Global HIV/AIDS Care, Nicole Itano, May 2008

Global Gag Rule Poses Moral Challenge for US HIV/AIDS Funding, Marjorie Signer, May 2008, PEPFAR, Religious Coalition for Reproductive choice, gag rule

Art Still Vital to AIDS Activism, Larry Schulte, May 2008

Not Enough Women Use Web Resources, Cindy Cooper, May 2008, HIV, AIDS diagnosis, PatientsLikeMe

African Women with AIDS Rebuffed for Life-Saving Care, Lisa Vives, May 2008, HIV Uganda, refugees

High Rates of HIV and STDs Show the US is Flouting Teens’ Human Rights, Cynthis Soohoo and Katrina Anderson, May 2008, Convention on the Rights of Children, abstinence-only, contraception

Talking Shop in the Medical Field: the Unfolding of a Strange New Disease, Mahin Hassibi, May 2008, HIV, AIDS

Having Children when You Have HIV – Still a Problem? Dr. Ann Boyer, May 2008, childbirth, conception

Replacing Prozac with Plato, Interview with Lou Marinoff, Merle Hoffman, Winter 1999, counseling, Socratic tradition, ethics, morality

Crazy in America, Bill Weiner, Winter 1999, mental illness

CRAZY IN AMERICA: National Failure, Family Tragedy by Bill Weiner, Winter 1999, mental illness

Stop the Pain, Penny Kome, Winter 1998, workplace injuries

Research for Your Life: Investigating Your Own Health Care, Katherine Eban Finkelstein, Spring 1998, cancer, alternative medicine, chemotherapy

The Bitter Pill, Leora Tanenbaum, Winter 1998, premarin, medical establishment, HRT

Beyond the Halsted Radical, books on breast cancer reviewed by Barbara Seaman, Fall 1997

Women Healers Past & Present: An Historical View of Women in Medicine from Earliest Times to Today by Beatrice Levin

The Mystery and Tragedy of Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome, Phyllis Chesler, Summer 1997

WOMEN WHO TRUST TOO MUCH: What AIDS commercials don't tell you, Deborah Johnson, Summer 1996, AIDS

Breast Intentions: Enlightening Medical Students about Female Bodies, Jeannette Batz, Winter 1995

Natural Childbirth, Nicole Bokat, Winter 1995

Can Separate Be Equal in Women's Health?, Dr. Eileen M. Hoffman, Winter 1995

Why Change the World When You Can Have a Prozac Moment?, Mahin Hassibi, Summer 1995, depression, psychotherapy, psychiatry

Foal Play, Dot Hayes, Fall 1994, estrogen, HRT, premarin, menopause

Death Takes the Stage, Merle Hoffman, Spring 1994, Jack Kevorkian, right-to-die, death and dying

Isn't It Enough to Make You Scream?, Merle Hoffman, Fall 1991, contraception, Gag Rule, reproductive health

Medical E.R.A., Merle Hoffman, Vol 5, 1985, medical establishment, Roe v Wade

Love and Death on 86, Merle Hoffman, Vol 5, 1985, AIDS

Smoke Yourself Thin, Suzanne Levine, Summer 1994

Every Child a Wanted Child, A Conversation with Surgeon General Dr. Jocelyn Elders, Elaine Clift, Spring 1994

My Uterus, Myself, Elayne Clift, Spring 1994, hysterectomy

"Sick? It's Your Own Fault", Fred Pelka, Spring 1994

Healthcare for All - Will It Be Good for Women? Elaine Clift, Summer 1993

Taking Issue with Fetal Tissue, Are Women Being Conned? Janice G. Raymond, Spring 1993

Making babies, Miracle or Marketing Hype? Elayne Clift, Spring 1993

Why It's a Good Idea, Rebecca Chalker, Spring 1993

Why It's Not, Louise Tyrer, Spring 1993

The Whats Hows And Whys Of Menstrual Extraction by Rebecca Chalker

Paying the Price in the Politics of Breast Cancer, Neal Barnard, M.D., Winter 1992

Excised – Reflections on My Uterus, Lois Green Stone, Summer 1992

Goodbye to White Male Privilege: Women Challenge Health Care Research, Elayne Clift, Winter 1991, clinical trials

Critiques of the New Contraceptives: After Norplant, What's Next? Jill Benderly, RU Angry? Rhona Mahoney, RU Sure? Jill Benderly, Summer 1991

On Donor Babies, The Ethics of Using One Child to Save Another, Barbara Katz Rothman, Winter 1990

Sexual Malpractice, Therapists Who Seduce their Patients, Fred Pelka, Vol 13 1989

NO MANDATORY TESTING! A Feminist Prostitute Speaks Out, Carol Leigh, Vol 10 1988

HIV-Positive Women Have Rights Too, Barbara Santee, Vol 10 1988

Sex, Politics and Psychology, Ray Rakow, M.D., Vol 9 1988

AIDS IS A Women's Issue, Interview with a Physician with an Introduction by Dr. Mathilde Krim, Co-chair American foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), Vol 7 1987

The Danger from Within & Out, When not following a doctor's orders may result in criminal prosecution, Merle Hoffman, Vol 7 1987

Women's Magazines Can be Dangerous to Your Health, Ellen R. Gritz, Vol 7 1987, cigarette advertising, smoking, lung cancer

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