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01-12-2010 | Book Review
Sue V. Rosser (ed.): Diversity and Women’s Health
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009, 294 pp, $35.00, ISBN 9780801892806
Author:
Karen Jaynes Williams
Published in:
Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
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Issue 6/2010
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Excerpt
The introduction to Diversity and Women’s Health asserts that recent advances in women’s health research follow a path similar to the expansion of liberal arts disciplines to include women’s studies. Rosser contends both follow a model: Phase I: Absence of Women, Phase II: Add-and-Stir Approaches, Phase III: Women as Deviant from the Male Norm, Phase IV: Women as the Focus, and Phase V: Inclusive Research and Curricula. Phase I, for example, might include the period prior to the General Accounting Office’s audit criticizing exclusion of women as experimental subjects in protocols funded by the National Institutes of Health. …