Where Women Have No Doctors: A Health Guide for Women

by Ronnie Lovich, A. August Burn, Katharine Shapiro, et al.

Book Overview

This 2010 updated reprint of Hesperian s manual, Where Women Have No Doctor, features new and updated information on family planning, cervical cancer screening and treatment, early detection of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0942364252
• ISBN13: 9780942364255
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Hesperian Foundation
• Length: 583 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This book is a classic

Having worked for several years in refugee health, this book, along with "Where there is no doctor" were staples of our field health libraries. I was incredibly happy to see the book on the shelves in our clinics on the Thai-Burma border, and feel that it provides really thorough basic information for women's health programs. I think it is a really good teaching aid for rural health workers- my only wish is that there were glossy full page anatomy pictures- but alas. . .

Good general info

I brought this as a companion to "Where There is no Doctor" for a trip to Guatemala. Althought parts are very helpful, I tended to refer to the other book for concrete help. Excellent info of family planning, breast feeding which is a must for health care workers.

well-written

Great book! Highly recommend it! I particularly like that it is written in simple, easy-to-understand terms with illustrations. It provides basic but key information about women's health care -- Dalay Lawrence

Wonderful Update of the Where there is No Doctor Series

I thought this book was wonderful because it not only addresses women's health in the reproductive realm but it also addresses the realities of women's health in developing countries: injuries due to overwork, too many children, violence, malnutrition, and also addresses mental illnesses. It also has a great section on FGM, AIDS, Sexual Violence, and Commerical Sex Workers. It integrates gender issues with traditional women's health concerns. I am dying to know when it is coming out in Spanish so I can take it down to Guatemala with me.