Medical journalists Leslie Laurence and Beth Weinhouse shine a penetrating light on the pervasive neglect, rampant gender bias and systematized discrimination in women's health care that characterize the medical establishment. Marshalling an array of facts never before presented in a single book, Laurence and Weinhouse eloquently demonstrate that sexist medicine is bad science -- and the demand for nonsexist treatment philosophies is nothing less than the demand for equal and effective treatment of women in research, education, and patient care.