Your Call 040108 How did Barbara Seaman launch the women's health movement?

How did Barbara Seaman's groundbreaking work affect the women's health movement? On the next Your Call, we'll pay tribute to writer and health activist Barbara Seaman. Her 1969 book that warned against the dangers of the birth control pill is credited with launching the modern women's health movement. According to National Women's Health Network Executive Director Cynthia Pearson, "the kind of journalism that Barbara started doing back in the 1960s affected most of the women in this country." Barbara Seaman died of lung cancer earlier this month. She was 72. Who's continuing Seaman's work? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Barbara Brenner, Executive Director of Breast Cancer Research

Norma Swenson, one of the founders of Our Bodies Our Selves. She has been teaching women's health at the Harvard School of Public Health.

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Your Call Archive: Women's Health Pioneer Barbara Seaman

Tomorrow's show pays tribute to writer and health activist Barbara Seaman whose groundbreaking work launched the women's health movement. Listen to Rose Aguilar's interview of Seaman for Your Call on July 23, 2003.