Talk:Barbara Seaman
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Through persistent investigative journalism, reporting, and social organizing, she has brought about significant changes in the relationship between the medical and pharmaceutical establishments and women in America.
As an activist, she introduced the concepts of informed consent, full disclosure, and sexism in healthcare, provoked a US Senate hearing, established the National Women’s Health Network, and authored a number of critical books and articles – some of which caused her to be fired, blacklisted, or censored.
She received her BA and LHD from Oberlin College as a Ford Foundation scholar, plus a certificate in advanced science writing as a Sloan-Rockefeller fellow from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
In 1969 she completed her first book, The Doctors’ Case Against the Pill, which led to a US Senate hearing on the safety of the oral contraceptive, and which made an enormous impression on the millions of women who took the pill each day– as well as the doctors who had prescribed it – despite a detrimental lack of information concerning its safety.
In 2000, Seaman was named by the US Postal Service as an honoree of the 1970s Women’s Right Movement stamp.
Seaman has been a critical part of many women’s, health, Jewish, and aging women’s organizations, and she continues to advocate and mentor younger generations of activists.
This is just a start...I left the sources on the main page...can we get specific FOOTNOTES for each of the above "claims" Once they are properly sourced we can add them back in. Maybe this article can be better than the Jacqueline Susann article which is a disaster....Thanks --Tom 14:16, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "ford foundation"
...1. i don't see where in the article it says she was a ford foundation scholar? 2. footnote #1 (hyperion books, author bio) states that she co-founded the national women's health network). Cindery 17:37, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] footnote #3
states: "The Doctors' Case Against the Pill became the source of widespread controversy. As a result of drug industry pressure, Seaman was fired from her columnist positions. Although prescription drugs were not yet advertised in the mass media, many drug companies with interests in the pill had over-the-counter divisions that used their advertising clout to have Seaman removed as a columnist." Cindery 17:42, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
