Women — Medical care.

  • Pregnancy (Part 2 of 2)

    Know your body: Pregnancy. This is the seventh of eight lectures in a course on women’s health given at the Women’s Medical Center in New York City in spring 1972. In this program on pregnancy, Judy Graham of the Women’s Medical Center introduces speakers Joan Haggerty and Carol Gingold. This lecture was recorded May 25,…

  • Women and doctors (Part 2 of 2)

    Know your body: Women and doctors. Tonight’s session, lecture six in the series, deals with the gynecological exam, doctors’ attitudes, and what medical services to expect. Speakers include Judy Graham, Diana Parness, Paula Weideger, Rachel Fruchter, and Leslie Casale. Recorded at and by the Women’s Medical Center in New York City on June 15, 1972,…

  • Menstruation, puberty through menopause (Part One only)

    Know your body: Menstruation, puberty through menopause. This lecture was part of the “Know Your Body” series of lectures which comprised an eight-week course given at the Women’s Medical Center in New York City in spring 1972. This lecture deals with menstruation from puberty through menopause. The speakers are Diana Parness and Paula Weideger. They’re…

  • Pregnancy

    Know your body: Pregnancy. This is lecture is part of a course on women’s health given at the Women’s Medical Center in New York City in spring 1972. In this program on pregnancy, Judy Graham of the Women’s Medical Center introduces speakers Joan Haggerty and Carol Gingold. This lecture was recorded May 25, 1972 and…

  • Women and doctors

    Know your body: Women and doctors. This lecture, part of the series “Know Your Body” recorded at and by the Women’s Medical Center in New York City on June 15, 1972, deals with the gynecological exam, doctors’ attitudes, and what medical services to expect. Speakers include Judy Graham, Diana Parness, Paula Weideger, Rachel Fruchter, and…

  • Ethical issues in human reproduction

    A presentation of tapes edited and selected from a symposium called “Ethical Issues in Human Reproduction Technologies: Analysis by Women”, which was part of the 146th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which met in San Francisco in early January 1980. Speakers are Belita Cowan of the National Women’s Health…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: June 29, 1983

    Production reel for June 29, 1983 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer, produced and hosted by Eileen Zalisk. Three parts: 1. “Nothing lights a fire like a dream deferred,” a series of dramatic readings on the feminist response to militarism, produced by Phaye Poliakoff & Adina Back. Blanche Jackson, Lizzie Olesker, Phaye Poliakoff and Cherise[sp?] Williams…

  • It’s your body / by Dr. Niels Lauersen interviewed by Clara Kern

    Producer Clara Kern interviews Dr. Niels Lauersen on the responsibility and prerogatives of women’s health care through his best-selling gynecological guide, “It’s your body.” Lauersen advises women to take care in selecting a doctor, that people need to be partners with their doctor for health. He also talks specifically about cramps, breast cancer, infertility, and…

  • The Untold story : women living with AIDS / produced by Deborah Lee.

    Documentary from interviews addressing how heterosexual relations will become the predominant mode of HIV transmission. Thus, women will increasingly be infected, so that by the year 2,000 the numbers of women will equal the number of men with AIDS. This program examines three HIV positive women: Ceryl, an I.V. drug user; Illiana, who shared needles…