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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# American Voices: Judy Norsigian

Need to Know on PBS • December 7, 2012

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> Judy Norsigian: The Library of Congress recently named Our Bodies, Ourselves as one of 88 books that shaped America. It’s had a profound impact on our consciousness, on the — ability of women to see the importance of asking questions, not to just take whatever a doctor says.

  
**Listen to the full interview:** [American Voices: Judy Norsigian](http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/video/american-voices-judy-norsigian/15609/)

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