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Everything Below the Waist audiobook
- By: Jennifer Block
- Narrator: Jennifer Block
- Category: HEALTH & FITNESS, Health Care Issues
- Length: 12 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: July 16, 2019
- Language: English
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Everything Below the Waist Audiobook Summary
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“A jaw-dropping investigation into the women’s health industry.” —Shelf-Awareness
“A fascinating examination of the past and present of women’s healthcare” –Delfina V Barbiero, USA TODAY
An eye-opening, investigative account of the dismal state of women’s healthcare in the U.S.
American women visit more doctors, have more surgery, and fill more prescriptions than men. In Everything Below the Waist, Jennifer Block asks: Why is the life expectancy of women today declining relative to women in other high-income countries, and even relative to the generation before them? Block examines several staples of modern women’s health care, from fertility technology to contraception to pelvic surgery to miscarriage treatment, and finds that while overdiagnosis and overtreatment persist in medicine writ large, they are particularly acute for women. One third of mothers give birth by major surgery; roughly half of women lose their uterus to hysterectomy.
Feminism turned the world upside down, yet to a large extent the doctors’ office has remained stuck in time. Block returns to the 1970s women’s health movement to understand how in today’s supposed age of empowerment, women’s bodies are still so vulnerable to medical control–particularly their sex organs, and as result, their sex lives.
In this urgent book, Block tells the stories of patients, clinicians, and reformers, uncovering history and science that could revolutionize the standard of care, and change the way women think about their health. Everything Below the Waist challenges all people to take back control of their bodies.
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Everything Below the Waist Audiobook Narrator
Jennifer Block is the narrator of Everything Below the Waist audiobook that was written by Jennifer Block
Jennifer Block is an independent journalist focused on women and health. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post Magazine, Pacific Standard, The Cut, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. Her first book, Pushed, led a wave of attention to the national crisis in maternity care and was named a “Best Book of 2007” by Kirkus Reviews. A reporter with Type Investigations, Block won several awards for her investigative reporting on the permanent contraceptive implant Essure, which has since been discontinued. For early chapters of Everything Below the Waist, she won a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her son.
About the Author(s) of Everything Below the Waist
Jennifer Block is the author of Everything Below the Waist
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Everything Below the Waist Full Details
| Narrator | Jennifer Block |
| Length | 12 hours 56 minutes |
| Author | Jennifer Block |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | July 16, 2019 |
| ISBN | 9781250233981 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Everything Below the Waist is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is HEALTH & FITNESS, Health Care Issues
Additional info
The publisher of the Everything Below the Waist is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781250233981.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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