American Women — Health

  • After surgery (Episode 1 of 6)

    Documentary on New York City hospitals, evaluating the affiliation program between municipal and voluntary hospitals and abuses in the system. Episode 1: After surgery. This program focuses on the quality of medical care at New York hospitals, such as Jacobi, Coney Island, and Bellevue, where patients are often not the top priority. Voices heard in…

  • New York City hospitals are dangerous to your life (Episode 2 of 6)

    Documentary on New York City hospitals, evaluating the affiliation program between municipal and voluntary hospitals and abuses in the system. Episode 2: New York City hospitals are dangerous to your life. This program is on the physical condition of hospitals — the buildings and the equipment in them– in New York City. The recording begins…

  • Research with the poor (Episode 3 of 6)

    Documentary on New York City hospitals, evaluating the affiliation program between municipal and voluntary hospitals and abuses in the system. Episode 3: Research with the poor. About performing dangerous research in hospitals on poor people without family. Voices heard on this program include New York state Senator Seymour Thaler; New York Times health reporter Martin…

  • Hospital use and abuse (Episode 4 of 6)

    Documentary on New York City hospitals, evaluating the affiliation program between municipal and voluntary hospitals and abuses in the system. Episode 4: Hospital use and abuse. The Affiliation Program is a proposed arrangement between municipal and voluntary hospitals, which some are promoting as a solution to the city’s hospital problems. For instance, doctors at so-called…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: July 30, 1980 (Part 1 only)

    This is the production reel for the July 30, 1980 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer. This recording contains a reading by Kate Millet of her statement denouncing death by stoning of Iranian women in Iran. Next is Eileen Zalisk interviewing Marge DeFazio about Women 80 and a planned march down 5th Ave upcoming on August…

  • 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…

  • Consciousness raising-WBAI (Episode 2 of 4): Adolescent puberty rituals

    Consciousness-raising: An examination of women’s issues. This discussion focuses on adolescent puberty rituals. The participants discuss how their mothers talked, or avoided talking to them, about puberty, menstruation, buying bras, etc. This program was possibly broadcast with a series of discussions by ex-wives or separated wives ca. October 1971 through April 1972. Recording ends abruptly.

  • Fashions in funerals: interview with Jessica Mitford

    Jessica Mitford, author of “The American Way of Death” (Buccaneer Books, 1963), talks with Elsa Knight Thompson about recent developments in legislation and public attitudes on death in America. Produced by KPFA and Elsa Knight Thompson. Box says recorded and broadcast on February 20, 1966, but folio listing appears in the October 1965 KPFA folio.

  • 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 Occupational health status of women / Vilma Hunt.

    Talk on the occupational health status of women at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on January 28, 1975. The speakers are Vilma Hunt, Associate Professor of Biological Science at Penn State University; Cora Marrett and Andrea Hricko, co-authors of a research paper: “Women’s occupational health: the rise and…