Unhealthy Situations

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Gertrude Garway and Sandra Krause discuss their efforts to improve the reproductive health and rights of refugee women. Then, Jill Quadagno examines why the US has no national health insurance in One Nation Uninsured. Elizabeth Swados draws a portrait of her struggle with depression in an illustrated memoir: My Depression. Finally, Mercedes Ruehl describes her one-woman show about Peggy Guggenheim: Woman Before a Glass.

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