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Vancouver Women's Health Collective: Health Phone Live, Health Groups, Women's Self-Help Clinic

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
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Date: 
1973-10
Pages: 
1
Summary: 
This leaflet offers information about the Vancouver Women's Health Collective and its services, including its self-help clinic, its health phone line, and access to health groups which provide a space for education and discussion. The leaflet provides some context for the beliefs involved in establishing and operating a self-help clinic for women, where self-education and patient-involvement is of central importance: "At the clinic a woman may learn how to look at her own cervix in order to detect its routine changes, thereby reclaiming the right to be familiar with her own body without shame or fear." Services offered at the clinic include cervical exams and instructions for cervical self-exams, breast exams, Pap testing, birth control and pregnancy testing, abortion referral and counselling.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); women and health; women's health; self-help clinic; health clinic; women's organizations; health information dissemination; women's movement; women's health movement; self help; education; empowerment; power; menstruation; breast health; breast self-exams; birth control; sexuality; Pap tests; cervical self-exam; preventative; discussion forum; counselling; abortion