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Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS), also known as the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (BWHBC), is a nonprofit, public interest women’s health education, advocacy, and consulting organization. Beginning in 1970 with the publication of the first edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves, OBOS has inspired the women’s health movement by: Producing books that makes accurate health and medical information accessible to a broad audience by weaving women’s stories into a framework of practical, clearly written text; Identifying and collaborating with exemplary individuals and organizations that provide services, generate research and policy analysis, and organize for social change; Inspiring and empowering women to become engaged in the political aspects of sustaining good health for themselves and their communities. OBOS introduced these key ideas into the public discourse on women’s health: That women, as informed health consumers, are catalysts for social change; That women can become their own health experts, particularly through discussing issues of health and sexuality with each other; That health consumers have a right to know about controversies surrounding medical practices and about where consensus among medical experts may be forming; That women comprise the largest segment of health workers, health consumers, and health decision-makers for their families and communities, but are underrepresented in positions of influence and policy making; That a pathology/disease approach to normal life events (birthing, menopause, aging, death) is not an effective way in which to consider health or structure a health system.

 

Address: Our Bodies Ourselves, 34 Plympton Street, Boston, MA 02118
Telephone: 617-451-3666
Fax: 617-451-3664
Website: http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/changing.htm