The Pedestal: The Vancouver Women's Liberation Newspaper
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is part of: Pedestal
issued: 2016-11-10
issued: 1973-06
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/pedestal/items/1.0340810/source.json
extent: 16 pages
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note: 0, VOL.5 NO. 5 JUNE 73 peoestaL m THE VANCOUVER WOMEN'S LIBERATION NEWSPAPER 25* ■Hi«f Women's Health Centre Women's Bookstore dill 3$\\ WoMen's Boofcstc-re - £04 R-ckarcU Uom*^ Mg^H/ACe - ^AftS I" ti> -SICKNESS""* HEALTH | HALFBREED r«v.,w p.7 SELMA JAMES i CANADIAN FICTION ■» "bitterly S." - PENNY'S W p.,.;* collective V^Wcouvcr ujomcw's health van WfcroetOs health collec+We Vancouver womeo VANCOUVER WOMEN'S HEALTH Do you know that your medical insurance will not cover the fee for a visit to the doctor for a breast examination unless your doctor indicates on the billing card that you were "anxious" about having breast cancer? Do you know that a general physical checkup is also excluded from coverage by both MSA and BCMP unless "anxiety" about physical condition is given as the reason for the visit? Both examples illustrate how ealth care is arranged in our society: doctors and nurses work in offices, clinics and hospitals where people come with their illnesses and anxieties. The healthy person stays at home. This distinction between sickness and health is especially damaging for a woman: although female physiology naturally implies menstruation, contraception, pregnancy, childbirth and menopause, a woman regularly deals with any or all of these functions in th e office of her doctor who may even be a specialist in women's problems - a gynecologist. She is classified by herself, her doctor (and her medical plan) as "ill" or anxious about being ill. Thus, women comprise the majority of a doctor's patients and are called neurotic or hypochondriacal. And if a woman chooses to stay at home, not considering herself to be unhealthy, she may fail to recognize the signs of authentic female illnesses such as breast cancer, pelvic disease and so forth. Without the knowledge of herself in health as well as in illness, she has no framework for effective consultation with health professionals and no solid information about preventive care. It is no exaggeration to say that her …
note: Vol. 5, no. 5; June 1973
has type: Newspapers
spatial: British Columbia
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0340810
language: English
provider: Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : Vancouver Women's Caucus
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source: Original Format: Simon Fraser University. Archives and Records Management
subject: Women's rights--Periodicals
subject: Feminism--Periodicals
type: Text