Socialist Health Review

Women and Health

Volume I

Number 2

September 1984

Editorial Perspective  Padma Prakash …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 49

Is medicine inherently sexist?  C Sathyamala ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 53

Women, Health and Medicine  Barbara Katz Rothman ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 58

Women’s Health is Women’s Concern  Nirmala Sathe …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 65

Response  ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 68

Amniocentesis and Female Foeticide  Vibhuti Patel …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 69

Rural Energy Situation: Consequences for Women’s Health  Srilatha Batliwala …………………………………………………………………………………………. 72

Health of Women in the Health Industry  Sujata Gotoskar, Rohini Banaji and Vijay Kanhere ……………………………………………………………………. 78

The Study of Women, Food and Health in Africa  Meredeth Turshen …………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 82

The Bhutali Phenomenon  Kashtakari Sanghatana ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 88