Women's Studies 1050    Spring 2003
Weeks 7-8    Women's Health Issues

Readings: Chapter 6

    5 readings on reserve: http://ereserve.weber.edu/

response topic #6 or #7 (Depending on whether or not you guided a section of The Body Project): Respond to #2 on page 266; due: 6 March.


Internet Resources

Resources on the History of Obstetrics and Gynecology: http://www.obgyn.net/english/history/history.htm

American Women's History: A Research Guide
Sexuality/Reproductive Rights:
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-sexuality.html

The National Women's Health Information Center: http://www.4woman.gov/

National Center for Health Statistics, Women's Health Facts: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/women.htm

Office on Women's Health, U.S. Dept of HHS: http://www.4woman.gov/owh/

The Women's Health Initiative will focus on the major causes of death, disability and frailty in postmenopausal women: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/whi/

JAMA Women's Health Information: http://www.ama-assn.org/special/womh/womh.htm

Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses:  http://www.awhonn.org/

World Health Organization Fact Sheets on Women's Health: http://www.who.int/frh-whd/FactSheets/English/index.htm