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Women physicians participate in professional dialogue when they publish their research. Discover a selection of books and articles from the NLM Digital Collections about both their scientific research and their experiences in a male-dominated field.

Title page of an editorial by Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias.

“Women’s Health, Women’s Lives, Women’s Rights,” American Journal of Public Health, Helen Rodríguez-Trías, May 1992

In this brief editorial introducing a special edition of the American Journal of Public Health dedicated to women’s health, pediatrician and public health professional Dr. Helen Rodríguez-Trías (1929–2001) invoked language drawn from the women’s movement. She used “centrality” and “totality” to explain how public health officials should center the experiences of individual women and understand those experiences as part of a larger social system. Dr. Rodríguez-Trías closed her brief editorial by calling for women to fully participate in the development of policies that impact them.

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