A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student
Author: Anonymous MD
Review: June 23, 2009
Edition: Copyright 2006
Pages: 151—notes & index sections expand it to 200
Overall Rating: 4/5 [Good]
Synopsis: Political correctness in the field of psychiatry/psychology prevents campus health centers from keeping their patients (especially female patients) from knowing important information on sexual health.
Strengths: Strong factual basis with a LOT of research, non-political tone despite the title (eg, author does not take sides on issues such as abortion).
Weaknesses: Very informally written.
Further Review: This book is…eye-opening in many ways. As a woman, it’s infuriating how a lot of information in this book is withheld by health-care professionals because they do not want to be accused of—politics, basically. This book is rather lean, but tons of research went into it; I think this book is great as an introduction and once the facts are given, it will now be easier to find more information on the topics—particularly with the help of articles and books listed in the ‘notes’ section, from where the author’s research came. For me, the most interesting section discusses how, chemically, sex is different for men than women; also, I did not know that the younger a woman is the more likely she is to contract a sexually-transmitted disease due to the transformation zone of the cervix. Actually, there are a lot of facts about women’s sexual health in here that REALLY NEED to be taught in high school health class. It’s extremely wrong that such things aren’t explained when sexual behavior is covered in such a class, and ought to ignite feelings of betrayal and indignation from women’s rights groups.