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?īlock 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. This program includes an introduction and conclusion read by the author.Īn eye-opening, investigative account of the dismal state of women's healthcare in the US.Īmerican women visit more doctors, have more surgery, and fill more prescriptions than men.
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