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Nora W. Coffey

Nora W. Coffey is a women's health advocate, activist, and educator.

Biography

Coffey has lectured extensively in the United States and in Europe. Coffey has been a guest lecturer at medical schools, nursing schools, undergraduate, and graduate programs. She has been invited to present papers to Women and Gender Studies Conferences and women’s health organisations. She has also been interviewed by 20/20, Oprah Winfrey, Phil Donahue, and Good Morning America. Interviews with Coffey have appeared in the New York Times,[1][2] Los Angeles Times,[3] Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe,[4] New York Magazine, Newsweek, USA Today,[5] Ms. Magazine, and others.[6]

She has testified at U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) [1] Archived 2017-05-16 at the Wayback Machine hearings and works with FDA to ensure the reporting of adverse events of uterine artery embolization (UAE), also called uterine fibroid embolization (UFE).

Coffey founded the Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services (HERS) Foundation in 1982.[7] The foundation is the only independent, nonprofit organisation solely dedicated to the alternatives to, and aftermath of, hysterectomy.

Coffey produced Rick Schweikert’s play “un becoming” which premiered Off-Broadway in 2004. It was subsequently seen in 23 other cities and produced in Washington, D.C. in 2005. Barbara Seaman, the writer, health advocate, and author of The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth said of Schweikert’s play, “Every woman, man, and child should see this play!”

Currently Coffey is working toward a sustainable legal remedy to end hysterectomy without the information requisite to informed consent. Coffey and Schweikert’s book, The H Word, about the physical, political, economic, and social environment surrounding hysterectomy, was published in 2009.[8] Coffey was honored by the organisation Women's Way of Philadelphia at their 32nd Annual Powerful Voice Awards on May 6, 2009.[9]

References

  1. ^ Kolata, Gina (1988-09-20). "Rate of Hysterectomies Puzzles Experts". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
  2. ^ Angier, Natalie (1997-02-17). "In a Culture of Hysterectomies, Many Question Their Necessity". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
  3. ^ "When does hysterectomy go too far?". Los Angeles Times. 2005-08-15. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
  4. ^ Foreman, Judy (2005-08-08). "Hysterectomy performed too often". Boston.com. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
  5. ^ "USATODAY.com - A hope against hysterectomy". usatoday30.usatoday.com. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
  6. ^ "Hold That Scalpel! You need thorough research and expert guidance before you decide whether you should go under the knife. Begin by reading this. - February 1, 1989". money.cnn.com. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
  7. ^ "Hysterectomy Alternatives and Aftereffects". HERS Foundation. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
  8. ^ "The h word". Goodreads. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  9. ^ "WOMEN'S WAY Annual Event". www.womensway.org. Archived from the original on 2009-02-15.
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