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...Ellen Frankfort, whose book combines health issues with feminist politics, came to WGBH yesterday to tape a radio program for "The Woman's Show." Frankfort writes a health column for The Village Voice and is a former medical student...
...anti-doctor-that would only help setback attitudes on modern medical technology. Women instead have to demystify doctors by learning more about their own bodies, and can then ask questions about gynecological examinations which have never been discussed thoroughly by doctors and their patients," Frankfort said...
...book, Frankfort notes that "in a survey of 1466 New York obstetricians and gynecologists, a little fewer than one-third said they would take into account the individual woman when recommending a form of contraception...
...Frankfort asserts that through self-help clinics and self-examination with a speculum and mirror, women can begin to regain one kind of control of their bodies...
...interview yesterday, Frankfort discussed contraceptive devices, radical mastectomy (surgical removal of the breast), menstrual period extaction devices (which can be used to end a period as soon as it begins, or terminate pregnancy) and "impersonal" and "rushed service" by doctors...