The Women's Health Specialty: Curriculum Implications (original) (raw)

I n the 25 years before the mid-1990s the women's health movement, through a network of social-action groups and women's health centers, developed a distinctive women's health care specialty. It is vested not in particular diseases or body parts, as is customary in medicine, but in process. Hunt's1 study of 73 women's health agencies in nine western countries revealed key features of the specialty: women-only services, the creation of woman-space, self-help and holism, feminist counseling and woman-towoman support, feminist teamwork, diversified health care, information sharing and social action, and accessibility.