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1981 Healthsharing Vol 2 No 3 Summer.Pdf —C) —Ii DO YOU READ ME? RESOURCES FOR FEMINIST RESEARCH (Documentation sur Ia recherche feministe) HEALTHSHARING An intern A quarterly 492 ational review encompassing k DRF journal that a wide range spotlights re of health top search on ics for women. women and 4yr/$6.75 sex roles. 4yr/$l5.00 BROADSIDE BODY POLITIC A feminist Canada’s newspaper national gay magazine of C,,d{tm000 — covering art, C iIht5o •‘... - world per fering feat spectives, ures, reviews, and women’s news com issues. mentary and lOyr/$8.0O social trends. lOyr, $10.00 R(H)M OF ()“%ES ()Y% BRIARPATCH p Saskatch ewan’s news magazine writ 1 ri1 ten with an t, Third World II emphasis on workers and the disadvant aged. - lOyr/$8.00 liCoseoiykOslo,, j for the 80o Th pdidcz of pdde .toe wnl4. Chmhe1 Sn Nodear eeabaa Ia snin DO YOU READ ME? Canadian Periodical Publishers Association 54 Wolseley Street Toronto, Ontario M5T 1A5 NAME ADDRESS POSTAL CODE — PROVINCE Money Order Enclosed L Cheque Enclosed wHS 2 HEALTHSHARING 11alththaring 1981 VOLUME 2, NUMBER 3 SUMMER Our Readers Features Write Etcetera 7 23 Ways of Seeing Illness Letters News 4 A cross-cultural look at Collective Notes illness and treatment — Part 23 Joining an international two in Alternatives to Health Wanted 5 class-action against the Allopathy makers of the Dalkon Shield by Carol Yawney Requests for information Newsfronts Recent research and health intrauterine device 11 events of importance to women Controlling Conception 18 — Naturally Reviews A look at natural birth 20 Shared Intimacies control alternatives Regional Reports by Lisa McCaskell by Vicki Van Wagner Reports from across the The Political Palate by Connie Clement 15 country Getting Rid of the Crab Taking action against the 24 makers of the Dalkon Shield Resources and Events by Madeline Boscoe and Connie Clement Box 230, Station ‘M’, HEALTHSHARING is published quarterly by Women Healthsharing Inc., a Resource and Writing Collective, members are Madeline Boscoe, Betty Burcher, Connie Clement, Toronto, Ontario M6S 4T3 (telephone 1-416-968-1363). Collective Pro Diana Majury, Lisa McCaskell, Jennifer Penney, Susan Wortman and Sharon Zigeistein. Issue Coordinator: Susan Wortman; duction Coordinators: Sharon Zigeistein and Jennifer Penney. manuscripts, graphics and photographs should be mailed to the above address. Au manuscripts should be All correspondence, will not typed double-spaced and two copies sent. Manuscripts or artwork not accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope be returned. Cover drawing by Pat Foote-Jones. Press Graphix. Printed at Musk Ox Press. ISSN: 0226.15 10. Typeset at Dumont $25.00/year sustaining. HEALTHS1-IARING subscription rates are $6.75/year, individuals; $13.50/year, institutions and groups; subscriptions, including USA, are $8.00/year, individuals; $15.00/year, institutions and groups. Foreign Bob Manchester, Bev Thanks to Rona Achilles, Patricia Brown, Teresa Daley, Colleen Kennelly, Allie Lehmann, Rhonda Love, Rodrigue, Victor Schwartzman and friends at Dumont Press Graphix for their help. HEALTI-ISHARING 3 Collective Notes Getting Rid of the Crab in this issue outlines dangers of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device and discusses evidence being gathered for an international class action suit filed in Boston against its manufacturer, A.H. Robins Company. On April 20th Women Healthsharing decided to join the class action suit. As we go to press, we are excited to announce that the Vancouver Women’s Health Collective has decided to take action along side us. The time is long overdue to extend definitions of corporate responsibilities and obligations to women. We are well aware that it would require an entire economic restructuring of industry for manufacturers of medical devices to care about women. Even so, this kind of court action can be one step towards a legal and economic framework which holds corporations accountable for the hidden, and often-times dangerous, costs of their profits. We believe Canadian women should be represented in the case. Canada may have had the highest per capita Dalkon Shield usage of any country. Canadian women are still wearing Dalkon Shields — anywhere from 1,000 to 12,000 of us. By joining the suit we can assist the U.S. courts to obtain data from health insurance plan records which will greatly strengthen the case. The Dalkon Shield tragedy is not a U.S. fight, not a Canadian fight, but an international fight that we can join. But, why Women l-lealthsharing? Canadian organizations analogous to the U.S. National Women’s Health Network or the Dalkon Shield Association of England (a membership organization of former Dalkon Shield users), both of whom are plaintiffs in the class action, would be ideal participants. Unfortunately no Canadian equivalents exist. We could hardly take on the mammoth task of grassroots organizing to form a users group (and still produce Healthsha ring!) and a national women’s health network is only in the incubation stages (See Regional Reports). So, we took the plunge. time, we challenge provincial and territorial governments to take At the same Dalkon Shield Intrauterine legal action against Robins. Health insurance dollars spent because of Robins’ to Device errors and irresponsibility could be regained. It is time for our governments from The Monthly 3:2 become advocates for women. By putting the heavy guns of government on the side of individuals, these governments would do much to reverse an image short on credibility. It is up to us to force our governments to become watchdogs and then to keep them watching. The U.S. courts have the power to hold Robins responsible for the product it produced and sold. Hopefully, the courts will, in a precedent setting verdict, force Robins to take recall action internationally. If so, other corporations will feel the waves of that action as pressure to appropriately test products, for safety and effectiveness, prior to selling them. Women who today cannot feel safe about available contraceptives can take scot free. small satisfaction in the fact that at least one company is not getting away APPRECIATIONS And we can take even greater satisfaction that some women, whose Dalkon Shields Develop are removed, are saved from the trauma and death which has, at times, accom • Our appreciation to Employment ment Branch for a grant enabling us to hire panied this device. two wonderful staff people. We welcome Bev Rodrigue to Women Healthsharing and are glad to finally be paying Susan Wortman for all her work. Madeline Boscoe Lisa McCaskell having to Betty Burcher Jennifer Penney • An appreciation to ourselves for not to Pat Foote Jones! Connie Clement Susan Wortman apologize Diana Majury Sharon Zigelstein 4 HEALTHSHARING neurosis. Heavy drinkers of cof not known how many people fee score higher on tests for anxi have eaten contaminated fish ety, are more likely to have a dis from the bay. Officials discov order diagnosed as psychotic ered that manholes through and have higher depression which non-radioactive waste Scores. water ordinarily drained were Newfront Bezchlibnyk and Jeffries actually inside the radioactive charge hospitals with the respon waste disposal facility. The waste sibility for reducing caffeine could have seeped from a stor intake of patients. Hospitals pres age tank into a manhole and then ently offer tea and coffee at least into the drainage system leading six times a day (at meals, and dur to the bay. ing morning, afternoon and eve A researcher from the private ning breaks) so that a patient can Research for Energy Economics drink 12 cups a day, including in Japan stated, “the safeguards refills, provided free of charge by built into these plants theoreti ing for the tests. IBT has indi the hospitals. cally make accidents impossi Safety Tests Faked on cated they would sue the govern They also argue that hospitals ble.” Pesticides ment if the information is should remove all drugs contain * Doctors have been warned to released. ing therapeutically useless The federal government is check small lumps in the thyroid Meanwhile we are in the dark amounts of caffeine. The caffeine allowing seventy-nine pesticides gland for cancer, particularly in while the federal government antagonizes the other ingredients to be used across Canada despite people who had radiation treat sifts through the unshredded evi or, at best, adds nothing to the evidence that the safety testing of ments to the head or neck 20 or dence deciding which tests are treatment. Also, hospital drug some or of the pesticides was more years ago. About 50 years all valid and which ones need to be information groups should dis faked. repeated. ago, doctors used radiation to an issue in The testing of the suspect cuss caffeine intake as treat infants believed to have an patient treatment. chemicals was carried out by enlarged thymus gland (located “The widespread adoption of Industrial Biotest Laboratories high in the chest) or children with such changes will not come eas (IBT), one of the foremost inde enlarged tonsils or adenoids. ily. our experience it is the pendent American chemical test In Until about 10 years ago, medical and professional staffs ing companies. In 1977 U.s. radiotherapy was considered who oppose changes in caffeine investigators discovered that IBT Caffeinism — A New good medical practice for acne. run others consumption habits, not the had faked some tests, Psychiatric Diagnosis? patients.” Bezchlibnyk and * Old yellow and orange china improperly, and then reported Jeffries on physicians who dishes that Canadians have been that chemicals had passed their Does caffeine make the psy call understand that caffeinism is a using for years, may be radioac safety tests. One glaring example chiatric wards go ‘round? A phar significant medical problem to tive. Over 30 Ottawa residents of included more rats macist and psychiatrist with the falsification “put pressure on hospital admin recently took their crockery into alive at the end of a test than at Clarke Institute of Psychiatry istrators to reduce the availability the Atomic Energy Control the beginning.
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