Debi:  I know Linda Alexander from various NIH projects.  I was intending
on using her text, New Dimensions in Women's Health,for the Women's Health
class I teach until I discovered its limitations.  First, it doesn't cover
breastfeeding.  Second, it takes the very traditional, medicalized approach
to childbirth.  Third, there is very little acknowledgement of the women's
self-help movement. Fourth, very little is mentioned about "alternative"
therapies/treatments.  Sadly, neither the publisher nor authors were very
receptive to these comments.  Instead, I use the Updated Our Bodies
Ourselves (Boston Women's Health Book Collective/Touchstone Press) and many
journal artices, plus fact sheets from La Leche League.
    Maybe if others contacted the authors, they would be inclined on the
next edition to change.
Chris

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