Changing The Rules (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781490911113)

Sadja Greenwood received an MD from Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve) and an MPH from the University of California, Berkeley. She was an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California Medical School in San Francisco, where she taught a course on human sexuality to medical students. She worked at Planned Parenthood in San Francisco for many years, where she started one of the first Teen Clinics in the United States in 1968, in response to the "summer of love." She started an abortion clinic at San Francisco Planned Parenthood immediately after the Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade. She also worked for the International Planned Parenthood Federation in Singapore and in family planning in Latin America, Bangladesh and Africa. She made a teaching film, Aspiration Abortion Without Cervical Dilation, in 1973 with her mentor and colleague, Alan Margolis, MD. The film was widely used to teach medical techniques for safe abortion. She is the author of Menopause, Naturally (Volcano Press, 1996), which became a popular book for women seeking alternatives to hormone therapy. She also wrote The Medical Self-Care Book of Women's Health with coauthor Bobbie Hasselbring (Doubleday, 1987). She writes a blog on health: sadjascolumns.blogspot.com.