In Patient's Best Interest

by Sue Fisher

Book Overview

Relying on a comprehensive survey of local newspapers and government documents, historian Galishoff here completes a two-volume history of Newark's public health policies and actions. ( Safeguarding the Public Health: Newark, 1895-1918 , Greenwood, 1975, was published earlier.) Galishoff shows how New Jersey's largest city developed politically and socially in the 19th century and how its increasing public health problems went untended because of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813513057
• ISBN13: 9780813513058
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Interesting - Scholarly Research Into Women And Reproductive Health

In The Patient's Best Interest: Women and the Politics of Medical Decisions is a book about the ways that women are influenced by their doctors about reproductive issues, including the decision to have a hysterectomy, when a more conservative treatment might work just as well. I highly recommend this book to any person who works with women in health care setting, especially in poor, immigrant and under served communities. Some cultures place a high value on what someone in authority tells them, and doctors are authority figures, which can lead to women making bad choices about their reproductive health care. Cultural competency isn't a politically-correct euphemism, but a necessary component of providing services to people from different cultures and backgrounds.