American Women — Health

  • Midwives / interviews by Viv Sutherland.

    Viv Sutherland interviews three midwives on their work and its benefits to women. The guests are Judy Carison, Jacobi Hospital, Bronx and Washington Heights Family Planning Clinic; Mary Dowd, Roosevelt Hospital; and Naomi Meyer, Martland Hospital, Newark, NJ.

  • The Treatment of cancer / produced by Bonnie Bellow. (Episode 3 of 11)

    Three doctors, all heads of their departments in their respective fields of surgery, radiology and chemo-therapy, discuss the major forms of orthodox cancer treatment. The guests are Dr. Morton Axelrod, Chief of Oncology at the Bronx Lebanon Hospital; Dr. Bernard Roswith, Chief of the Radiation Center at the Bronx Veteran’s Hospital, and Dr. Myron Arlen,…

  • Strong at the broken places: middle class women and drugs

    Two women – Barbara Kerr, author of “Strong in the Broken Places: Women Who Have Survived Drugs”, and “Kathleen,” a former drug addict – discuss middle class women and drugs with KPFK’s Barbara Cady.

  • Women as health consumers / Ellen Frankfort. (Episode 4)

    Ellen Frankfort (1937-1987) was a medical writer and the author of “Vaginal Politics”. Here she discusses health consumerism and women. This lecture was given at WBAI on October 24, 1972.

  • Women in consumer advocacy

    Consumer activist Ida Honorof discusses survival on a polluted planet with Dr. Ruth Harmer, author of “Unfit for Human Consumption,” and Dr. Charlotte Taylor, UCLA Biochemist. Conversations centers mostly around the food industry, food quality, and growing one’s own food. Produced by Ida Honorof.

  • Poor diet in pregnancy: cause of toxemia / panel moderated by Lou Hartman

    A panel discussion with Dr. Howard Jacobson, associate professor of obstetrics at the University of California Medical Center; Dr. Tom Brewer, obstetrician at the Richmond Health Clinic and author of Metabolic Toxemia of Late Pregnancy: A Disease of Malnutrition; Dr. Ruth Steinkamp, medical consultant for the Bureau of Nutrition, State of California; and Dr. Robert…

  • The challenge to women / John B. Saunders (Episode 2 of 15)

    Part 2 of KPFA’s presentation of the University of California’s Medical Center Conference “The Challenge to Women: the Biological Avalanche” held in San Francisco this year. In this recording John B. de C. M. Saunders (1907-1991), Chancellor, Professor of Anatomy, and Chair of Medical History and Bibliography at the UC Medical Center San Francisco, gives…

  • From the cancer journals / Audre Lorde.

    Live readings by poet, activist and essayist Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992) from her non-fiction work, The Cancer Journals (Aunt Lute Books, 1980). She starts with personal readings in which she shares her experiences with breast cancer. She warns of the dangers of silence and denial, and how to take action by becoming visible to…

  • Test tube babies / produced by Laurie Garrett.

    Documentary on the moral, physical, and socio-political controversy surrounding artificial insemination and egg implantation, based on hearings conducted in San Francisco in November 1978 by Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) Secretary Joseph Califano. Heard on the program are Dr. Alan Enders from the University of California, Davis; Francis Filice, Professor Emeritus of Biology…

  • Informed consent / produced by Amanda Spake

    Amanda Spake from “Mother Jones” talks to Howard Rosenberg about his article “Informed Consent” about a child receiving radiation treatment. Between 1960 and 1975, 194 cancer patients were treated with high level whole body radiation at the Atomic Energy Commission’s Oakridge, Tennessee laboratory. Rosenberg describes what he learned about that research: a description of the…