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In this chapter:

Where Women Have No Doctor

A health guide for women

Authors: A. August Burns, Ronnie Lovich, Jane Maxwell, Katharine Shapiro

Editor: Sandy Niemann

Assistant editor: Elena Metcalf

Editor for 2nd edition: Dani Behonick

Hesperian Health Guides, Oakland, California, USA

Published by:
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Copyright © 1997, 2023 by Hesperian
First edition: June 1997; Second edition: April 2023
Eleventh printing: June 2024
ISBN: 978-0-942364-25-5

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The Library of Congress has already cataloged the 10-digit ISBN as follows:

Where women have no doctor : a health guide for women / by A. August Burns ... [et al.] ; edited by
Sandy Niemann, assistant editor, Elena Metcalf.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-942364-25-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Women--Health and hygiene. 2. Women’s health services. 3. Community health aides.
4. Medicine, Popular. I. Burns, A.
August (Arlene August), 1952–     .    II. Niemann, Sandy.
RA564.85.W46     1997 97-19421
613’.04244--dc21 CIP

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