Our Bodies, Ourselves (196 page)
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Authors: Boston Women's Health Book Collective
Elizabeth Stewart, M.D.
(vbook.com), is the Director of the Vulvovaginal Service at Vanguard Medical Associates, Atrius Health, Boston. She has been caring for women with vulvovaginal problems and vulvodynia for over twenty years.
Kirsten Thompson, MPH
(kirstenthompson.com), conducts reproductive health research and uses new media for public education at the University of California, San Francisco. She received her MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her BA from Bryn Mawr College.
Trisha Torrey
is Every Patient's Advocate, an expert in patient empowerment and advocacy, and author of
You Bet Your Life! The 10 Mistakes Every Patient Makes.
Learn more about Trisha's work and expertise at everypatientsadvocate.com and on Twitter at @TrishaTorrey.
Jeane Ungerleider, LICSW, BCD
, is Director of Counseling Services for Boston IVF, and cochairs the Ethics Committee at Boston IVF. She is a clinical social worker with particular expertise in women's health. She received her master's degree from Simmons College of Social Work.
Annie Urban
is a social, political, and consumer advocate on issues of importance to parents, women, and children. She blogs regularly about the art and science of parenting at phdinparenting.com and can be found on Twitter at @phdinparenting.
Trudy Van Houton, PhD
, is the director of the Clinical Applications of Anatomy course and codirector of the Human Body course at Harvard Medical School.
Pamela Vireday, BA, CCE
, is a childbirth educator, size acceptance activist, and mother of four. She is the author of the website plus-size-pregnancy.org and the blog Well-Rounded Mama (wellroundedmama.blogspot.com).
Rachel Walden, MLIS
, is a librarian at an academic medical center, where she connects people with medical resources and evidence. She blogs about women's health topics for Our Bodies, Our Blog (ourbodiesourblog.org) and at womenshealthnews.wordpress.com.
Robin Wallace, M.D.
, is a family doctor in the San Francisco Bay Area. She works with underserved and underinsured populations, with an emphasis on preventive and reproductive health care. Her contributions on family planning can also be found on Sex Really (sexreally.com).
Marc Weisskopf, PhD, ScD
(hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/marc-weisskopf), is assistant professor of environmental and occupational epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He studies environmental influences on neurological disorders, plays hockey, and spends time with his wife, Cindy, and children Noah, Mira, and Micah.
Rose Weitz, PhD
, is a professor at Arizona State University, the author or editor of numerous works on women's health and bodies, including the books
Rapunzel's Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us About Women's Lives
and
The Politics of Women's Bodies.
Tracy Weitz, PhD, MPA
, is an associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences and director of the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) program of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health (ansirh.org), both at the University of California, San Francisco.
Toni Weschler, MPH
, is the author of the groundbreaking bestseller
Taking Charge of Your Fertility
(tcoyf.com) and a book on reproductive health for teens entitled
Cycle Savvy.
She is an internationally respected women's health educator with a master's degree in public health.
Carolyn Westhoff
is a gynecologist and epidemiologist at Columbia University. She focuses her clinical practice and research on women's preventive services, contraception, and abortion.
Cosette Marie Wheeler, PhD
, is a Regent's Professor of Pathology at the University of New Mexico (UNM) Health Sciences Center. She currently directs one of the nation's five NIH-funded cooperative research centers focused on sexually transmitted infections, the UNM Interdisciplinary HPV Prevention Center.
Sally Whelan
is a cofounder of Our Bodies Ourselves. Sally has for the last ten years managed the organization's Global Initiative, where her leadership has resulted in the publication and in-country use of seventeen cultural adaptations of
Our Bodies, Ourselves
around the world.
Beverly Whipple, PhD, RN, FAAN
, is professor emerita at Rutgers University and a certified sexuality educator, counselor, and researcher. She has coauthored seven books including the international best-seller
The G Spot and Other Discoveries About Human Sexuality.
Judy Anne Williams, LICSW
, is a clinical social worker, a Quaker, a youth worker, and a bisexual activist. Her work seeks to help us bring together our bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits into an integrated and blessed wholeness.
Jamia Wilson
(jamiawilson.com) is vice president of programs at the Women's Media Center in New York. She serves on the leadership committee and cochairs the communications working group for SPARK Summit: Challenging the Sexualization of Girls.
Beverly Winikoff, M.D., MPH
, is president of Gynuity Health Projects (gynuity.org) and a professor at Columbia University. At the Population Council, she developed the Ebert Program on Critical Issues in Reproductive Health. She graduated from Harvard University and earned her MD from New York University and MPH from Harvard.
Claire Winstone, PhD
(speaking4baby.wordpress.com), is an infant mental health therapist treating early traumas and a prenatal/birth psychology educator who loves sharing with those who are passionate about mothers and babies her understanding of how birth and the prenatal period shape who we are.
Karen Anne Wolf, PhD, RN, NP
, a nurse-practitioner and educator, has been an advocate for single-payer health care systems and care for underserved populations. She has contributed to publications and film projects on health care and writes for the website Nurse Together (nurse together.com).
Susan Wood, PhD
, is associate professor of health policy and director of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. Previously she was the assistant commissioner for women's health at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration until 2005, when she resigned on principle owing to the continuing delays of approval of over-the-counter emergency contraception by the FDA.
Fred Wyand
is a sexual health educator and the editor of
HPV News
, published by the American Social Health Association
(ASHA: ashastd.org). He is also director of ASHA's national resource centers for HPV and herpes.
Susan Wysocki, WHNP-BC, FAANP
, is the president and CEO of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health (NPWH: npwh.org). She is a woman's health nurse-practitioner and a nationally recognized speaker, writer, and opinion leader in the field of women's health.
Susan Yanow, MSW
, was the founding executive director of the Abortion Access Project. She currently consults for national and international organizations that support abortion as a fundamental human right and work to expand all women's access to abortion.
Courtney Young
(thethirtymilewoman.wordpress.com) is a Manhattan-based popular culture writer. She has written for publications such as the
Nation
, the
Huffington Post
, and the
Daily Beast.
She is currently a staff writer for
Campus Progress.
Diony Young
has been editor of
Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care
since 1990. She authored the award-winning
Changing Childbirth: Family Birth in the Hospital
and many other publications. For more than thirty years she has advocated on numerous national and state maternal health advisory groups.
Meg Young
is an undergraduate at Tufts University, where she hopes to study absolutely everything. During her gap year between high school and college she worked as an intern at Our Bodies Ourselves. She hails originally from Cornwall, Vermont.
Kay Zakariasen
authored and ran an online patient survey (cystitispatientsurvey.com) with 1,800 respondents. She is also coauthor of an article in the journal
Urology
and coauthor of an article for the National Women's Health Network.
Deanna Zandt
(deannazandt.com) is a media technologist and the author of
Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking.
She is a consultant to key progressive media organizations and is a research fellow at the Center for Social Media at American University.
Miriam Zoll
(miriamzoll.net) is a writer and communications strategist specializing in health and gender issues and the founding coproducer of the Ms. Foundation's Take Our Daughters to Work program. Her clients include UN agencies, USAID, and the Earth Institute, among others.
Diana Zuckerman, PhD
, is president of the National Research Center for Women & Families (center4research.org), a nonprofit health organization. She previously worked in the U.S. Congress and at Vassar, Yale, and Harvard, has written five books, and is frequently quoted in national media.
Janna Zwerner, M.R.C., CRC
, has been employed in the health and disability field for more than thirty years. She is currently the COO of the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors. She is particularly interested in sexuality and women with disabilities.
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AARP study,
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abdominal pain,
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abortion and,
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cysts and,
620
postpartum,
432
abortion,
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349
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622
birth control after,
225
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emergency contraception and,
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after the first trimester,
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frequently asked questions about,
318
funding of,
318
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322
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341
â42,
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health care reform and,
653
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legality and accessibility of,
340
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823
methods of,
324
â34
miscarriage vs.,
463
obstacles to access and,
342
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345
organizing to change the law about,
340
parental consent and,
323
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340
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343
reasons for,
317
related reading on,
777
resources for support and,
335
spontaneous,
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miscarriage
symptoms to watch for after,
336
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teen pregnancy and,
323
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violence and,
759
weakening of Constitutional protection of,
344
what to expect at the clinic and,
323
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what you need to know about,
319
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who has,
317
Abortion Care Network,
323
Abortion Gang blog,
816
About-Face,
65