American Women — Health

  • The Halima Toure show: Lunaception

    Halima Toure interviews writer Louise Lacey on her book “Lunaception,” wherein they discuss natural birth control. Lunaception was published by Warner Books, Inc. in 1976.

  • Women’s health movement and the WATCH arrests

    Eileen Zalisk speaks with Debbie Stuart-Smalley from Womancare, a feminist healthcare center in San Diego, CA; Mary Ann Bennett, with the Abortion Rights Movement of Women’s Liberation in Washington, D.C.; and Peggy Roberts, a family physician who also volunteers at a women’s healthcare center in Albuquerque, NM. The topic is the legal case of Carol…

  • FOIA – The Right To Know panel on the health of atomic vets

    A panel discussion on the right to know, with William Howard, past president of the National Council of Churches; Sandra Marlowe of the National Association of Atomic Veterans; and Maryann Napoli of the National Women’s Health. Recorded at a conference sponsored by the Fund for Open Information and Responsibility on June 26, 1982. Recorded by…

  • Women’s occupational health: December 15, 1980

    Another in a series of programs on women and occupational safety and health produced by Dr. Jeanne Stellman, executive director of the Women’s Occupational Health Resource Center and Dr. Mary Sue Henifin, an associate of the Center. The topic of this program is the health of women office workers. Guests are Dr. Karen Nussbaum, former…

  • Women’s occupational health: August 10, 1981

    Aircheck of Everywomanspace episode in a series on women’s occupational safety and health, hosted by Dr. Jeanne Stellman, executive director of the Women’s Occupational Health Resource Center at Columbia University, and Mary Sue Henifin, resource coordinator for the Center. Tonight’s focus is on the hidden health hazards in the work that many women do, e.g.…

  • Women’s occupational safety: February 9, 1981

    Women’s Occupational Health and Safety hour hosted by Dr. Jeanne Stellman and Mary Sue Henifin. In this episode, Mary Sue Henifin interviews co-host Dr. Jeanne Stellman, Associate Professor for Public Health at Columbia University and Executive Director of the Women’s Occupational Health Resource Center and Dr. Steven Stellman, Assistant Vice President for Epidemiology at the…

  • Women’s occupational health: November 10, 1980

    The first in a series of programs on women’s occupational safety and health with Dr. Jeanne Stellman and Mary Sue Henifin of the Women’s Occupational Health Resource Center. Features listener call-ins.

  • Women and cancer : hosted by Viv Sutherland. (Episode 4 of 11)

    One of a series of programs on the myths and realities of cancer hosted by Viv Sutherland. Guests are Dr. Philip Strax, director of the Guttman Breast Diagnostic Institute; Mary Overton, assistant executive director of Cancer Care; Richard Klarberg,director of the Public Health Center, the American Health Foundation; Pam Booth, co-director of Women’s Health Forum;…

  • Community health care and Medicaid cutbacks (Episode 5 of 6)

    Documentary on New York City hospitals, evaluating the affiliation program between municipal and voluntary hospitals and abuses in the system. Episode 5: Community health care and Medicaid cutbacks. Discussion of the challenges of providing care to the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who have no other medical resources, and the need for a new…

  • Organization, control, and planning for medical services (Episode 6 of 6)

    Documentary on New York City hospitals, evaluating the affiliation program between municipal and voluntary hospitals and abuses in the system. Episode 6: Organization, control, and planning for medical services. In this sixth and last of the medical series, the future of New York’s hospital system is explored: how it will be organized, who will run…