With particular reference to women Ehrenreich and English detail the development of the “helping For a start, medicine has not been a profession for very long physicians had to fight to make it one, as opposed to a concern of the community and of the home. It has its roots, its biases and its historical limits. Modern medicine, as the authors show, is not an objective given that we must accept. Medical establishment is unique to our time and place. Rather directly, this anecdote demonstrates that our present understanding and experience of the 150 Years of the Experts’ Advice to Women (Doubleday August, 1978), stands at the center of their history.This incident, related in Barbara Ehrenreich’s and Deirdre English’s new book, For Her Own Good It seemed natural for one person to care about another, not to charge for it. They thought it appropriate to pay for the drugs that he supplied, but not for his attention and time. One of America’s first physicians could not convince his patients that they should pay for his services. For Her Own Good: 150 Years of Experts Advice to Womenīy Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre English (New York: Doubleday, August 1978)
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