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Published in: Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 6/2010

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 | 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. …
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Title
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
Publication date
01-12-2010
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health / Issue 6/2010
Print ISSN: 1557-1912
Electronic ISSN: 1557-1920
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-010-9375-z

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