Word: selfhelp
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...extreme symptom of Women's Liberation has been the refusal of some feminists to submit to examination by male gynecologists. Men doctors, some women believe, simply do not understand female attitudes toward gynecological problems. Small groups of women began meeting last year in "selfhelp" cells on the West Coast; they learned to detect, diagnose and sometimes even treat some ailments. Since then, do-it-yourself gynecology has spread to cities across the country...
...procedure itself is not new. Doctors have used a similar technique to obtain samples of uterine tissue for 50 years. Harvey Karman, a Los Angeles psychologist, pioneered it as a less painful abortion technique ten years ago. Militant Women's Liberationists have been using menstrual extraction in small "selfhelp" clinics for more than a year as a means of preventing "male control" over their bodies...
...likes. He makes his own bed and keeps his room tidy. For meals he can go to a cafeteria, and for company he has not the seriously ill but people like himself who are convalescing. Perry is in the hospital's new intermediate ward, which it calls its "selfhelp unit...
...Africans' ability to manage their own affairs or in order to improve France's image and thereby ensure its continued dominance is not yet clear. In an address to the Senegalese National Assembly at week's end, he emphasized the importance to developing nations of selfhelp. "Whatever its form and size," said Pompidou, "external aid could never, by itself, ensure the success of a policy of development...
...prison officials rebuffed Grant's idea, just as they do the work of other ex-convict groups seeking the same result. Instead of selfhelp, they favor trained officials working with fewer prisoners or parolees, a costly process that may well have little or no effect on the repeater rate. Thus skeptics wonder about efforts like the Federal Government's new $10.2 million Robert F. Kennedy Youth Center in Morgantown, W. Va., where 180 staffers work on a mere...